Show v FIGHTING SHIP MAINE SENT TO HAVANA < S5 r r I I I r i > I t Ti jf > TrYA > < = = E > = < = = = = = c < t = = = 0 = = = = = > c r = = = 1 I lThe The United States warship Maine b ordered to Havana yesterday is a battleship j I bat-tleship of the second class She could I do considerable damage if her temper were properly aroused She can hurl a broadside of 1322 pounds of shot and i i can fire 1224 pounds ahead from her I two turrets and forward guns This does not include her small arms Her turrets are fitted with two tenInch breechloading rifles Her armament consists of six sixinch guns and four teninch guns and these form her main I 1 L battery Besides these she has six I sixpounders four machine guns eight onepounders two Gatlmgs and two revolving cannon for her second battery bat-tery She is well equipped with torpedo tor-pedo enginery All this machinery of death and destruction de-struction Is operated by a force of 300 men besides the officers The Maine Is not a cruiser She Is a fighting ship pure and simple She is a floating fort built strictly fojr business She was constructed In the Brooklyn navy yard by the government and her cost was In the neighborhood of 2oOO000 She j < h > t I was designed for a flagship but so I I many advances had been made in the art of marine construction since she was begun that the navy department tetatmJ h8g tmJ l turned her Into I a fighting I boat Her i keel was laid down on Oct 11 1SSS and she was launched Nov 18 1890 In size the Maine compares well with other warships She is 318 feet long 57 feet beam and 2l4 draught with a displacement dis-placement of 6C4S tons She carries enough coal to steam 7000 miles at ten knots Her indicated horse power Is I 9000 Her armor is excessively heavy and efficient 110 A h i |