Show READY ADY FOR TRIAL TR The Russian R siau Battleship Rtin Built Buit in America New York World The rho he mighty Russian battleship Ret the largest vessel of her lien type afloat and the Ute largest ever built bult In America America as a well wel as a first to be con constructed constructed constructed here for a foreign govern government government ment meat yesterday esterday went ent into dry dock at the Brooklyn Brokl n navy yard to have her hull huH painted below the water line lne preliminary to her final official speed trial is of nearly tons displacement length 34 feet beam 72 feet 24 2 inches draught 23 2 2 feet re required required qui red speed d 18 IS knots knot will wi house near nearly n nearly ar 80 men and can cnn hurl pounds of chilled steel and high explosives from the four tour great guns gns In her fore and aft steel turrets I She is protected by b Krupp armor varying from nine inches thick on the the sides to five fe inches She can de tIe develop power and carries In her main battery batery four tour twelve and twenty guns gns and In her laer secondary battery batery twenty 47 Hotchkiss cannon She was built buit by the Cramps at Phil Philadelphia adelphia successfully launched Oct 23 last had her initial test tests of speed gun firing fring and general working order Sept 15 16 and 17 last lat sailing for thin thi I city to go In II dry dy dock three days ago 8 She entered dry dr dock No 1 of the Brooklyn navy yard yesterday morn mornIng mornIng mornIng Ing and as the water wate gradually low lowered lowered lowered ered in the dock exposing to tug the hull hul of the monster hundreds of or pe pepie peo people pie crowded around round to view the vessel vesel At 1 the last of the water iter t disappeared from the drydock and workmen at once began the task of making the ships position secure secue by shoving timbers of stout oak placed p laced at regular intervals under her hull hul preparatory to the coat of paint she II Is to receive As A soon as a her hull Is painted the will wi leave Brooklyn and pro pr j I Iee ee to in U Boston harbor habor her official I speed trial being scheduled to take place Oct 15 off on the Isles Isle of Shoals on the New England coast coat All Ail Al other tests having having proved satis satisfactory sats satisfactory factory should hould the not fall fail faUto to come up to the contract of a speed of eighteen knots knot an hour during twelve hours of consecutive consecutive tive steaming she will be b accepted by R representative and formal formally ly Jy turned over to that government by her builders Her er builders express complete con confidence confidence In exceeding the required speed and Inasmuch as during her prelim relm trials the sustained un under under der tIer forced draught a n speed of 1775 1 75 knots knot without special preparation and with ordinary coal she seems to justify that confidence The which Is named after a Swedish captured in bat battle batte battie tie tle te by the Russians during the eighteenth tent century will be commanded by Captain Edouard and manned by a Russian Rusian crew At present she Is manned by a crew of picked men of her builders force for the firing of her fifty furnaces and running the vessel The only Russians as yet on board are the he gun crews who fired fred the ordnance during during the firing tests of or last month monthA As A if to accentuate the monster pro proportions proportions portions of the when she was docked yesterday a Holland Holand sub submarine marine rine boat also occupied the dry dock at the bow of o the Compared to the big battle batte ship the Holland Holand boat looked more titan ever like an exaggerated cigar yet If the hopes and claims of the build er are ar ever fully realized they will have the effect of sending to the Junk pile pie the imposing and costly costy bulk of or the former I |