Hyder weekly herald., 1931-07-18
5attleship Arrives Early

The United States battle cruiser Detroit, which will provide for loca residents one of the most interesting attractions of the Alaska-Britsh Cou umbian celebration, arrived in port rom Bremerton. Wash. at 11:20 a. m Thursday morning and will remain here throughout the celebration per | iod.
 Radio advices of her early arrival were received Wednesday afternoon and large part of the districts pop ulation watched the huge, gray battle ship come slowly up the lower reach es of Portland Canal and anchor in midstream.
 Passing the Hyder dock, the ships band broke into ringing air which echoed in many reverberations along the lofty mountain sides. This was succeeded by the crashing boom ol the cruisers guns firing the national salute of 21 guns in honor of the Canadian government. While the thunderous echoes were still rolling | along the mountain peaks, the salute was returned in a manner appropriate to the mining camp, by an equal
 
 the heights overlooking the internat- ional boundary line.
 Later in the morning, the members of the celebration committee from Hyder, Stewart and Premier boarded the cruiser and MT. Dale L. Pitt, hon orary chairman, rendered to the ship and it's personnel the welcome of thu district.
 Thursday afternoon the cruisers band regaled local residents with { splendid band concert at the bal park, whilZe the ships baseball team turned out to Timber up for the com ing contests with the Premier and Portland Canal teams Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
 The Detroit is what is known as a 7,500 ton cruiser and is the fourth American naval vessel bearing that name. The first Detroit was ship of 400 tons, carrying 19 guns, cap. tured from the British by Commander Perry in the battle of Lake Erie in 1913. The present Detroit was com. missioned in 1923, and is 555 feet { inches long, beam 55 it., draft IS it. 6 inches. Although the designed nor nal displacement was 7,500 tons, ad ditions have increased the tonnage tc about $500 tons. The cruiser has power plant three times stronger than that of the usual battleship. The T. boilers produce 90.000 h. D. and drive four propellors 12 feet in diameter at q rate which gives the cruiser speed of 35 knots per hour. Oil is useC exclusively for fuel. The ship has tel 6 inch guns with a range of 25,0OC yards. the shells for which weigh 10G pounds, Each of the guns can fire 1t of these in q. minute.
 There are four inch anti-aircraft guns which are fired twice as rapidly as the larger guns. The ship carries two torpedo tubes. The torpedos cost about S10,000 each, are 20 feet long 21 inches in diameter, carry 35C pounds of T. N. T. and can trave through the water about miles.
 The Detroit is equipped to carry two airplanes and launch them from her decks by means of catapults, which give them a speed of 60 miles pel hour in space of 40 feet. The cruis- CT has no armor worthy of mention but the ship makes very difficult target because of her great speed Mines will not easy sink the Detroit as the vessel has 50 watertight com partments, in contrast to the s com mon to merchant ships. and would have to be literally riddled by artill cry before sinking. It is also equipped with paravances, which appear some thing like huge band saws, surround ing the vessel. These will not only pick up mine cables. but saw them off, permitting the mines to come to the surface, where they can be eX ploded by gunfire.
 To keep the Detroit's man-poweI adequately fed requires tons ot fresh bread per month, tons Of meats, 10 tons of fresh vegetables tons fresh butter, 1000 lbs. ot sugar, 1,500 lbs. of beans, 1900 lbs Of coffee, besides varying quantities of all other known food stuffs.
 The operating expense of the vessel amounts to about $50,000 a month Maintenance and upkeep costs around S1O,OO0 per month, pay of the per sOnnel totals S35,000 a month, while subsistence amounts to S6.000.
 The warship will be open to wis itors every day during it's stay from 10 a. m. to p. m. Boats will be leaving the dock for the ship every hour, both morning and afternoon.
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