Show NE MONITOR IS ANC FO ARKANSAS EIt SHIP OP OF THE TEE WYOMING RS SEA BEA II I I Built to Defend D Harbors She Is a Development From Prom the Old Eric Erio Ericson Ericson son Craft S I i Newport News Ne Va V Oat 10 The monitor Arkansas Arkan a was successfully launched at the th ship yard yar l today toda Miss Bobbit Newton Jones J daughter of the governor of Arkansas Arkan a christened the monitor as it started s down flie e way In addition to Governor Jone J and a ap Party p sf ef f Ar Akse he were present 0 nor Virginia a large party of naval officers Und and nd a number of invited guests The monitor Arkan Arkansas is the first of I type developed by b the tIte American Y v for not since the civil war has a turreted monitor been construct The Arkansas will have as sister I ships the Florida and the Wyoming I and a third which was war to te hae have been the Connecticut still unnamed These are known as monitor and while small will have large accommodations for crews for vessels of their size and so be valuable for the use of and instruction of naval militia mUltia The Arkansas is not to cost co t more than complete The designs were prepared by Chief Constructor Hichborn and provide for a single bal bai balanced balanced turret of the Hichborn type on I the center line forward with an in inclined dined elined top and made of steel nine I inches thick This turret will contain two of the new high power breech loading rifles Besides Belides this ar manent the Arkansas will carry four tour rapid fire guns buns three six and four A special effort was made to secure light draft for this formidable type of vessel so the Arkansas when com complete complete cain will draw only twelve feet six inches of water on a displacement of tons enabling her to slip lip Into a harbor open to seagoing shipping Eleven inches of steel armor protect the sides of the monitor above the wa water water water ter line and nd there will be a deck the full length of the vessel one and thick Twin screw engines will iii drive drin the monitor at a maximum speed of eleven knots amply sufficient for a harbor harbol defense vessel and electricity will be employed for tur turret turret turret ret turning gears ammunition n hoist ventilating apparatus and all the sec soy secondary sect accommodations The wood woodin woodI t I in the vessel is fireproof Unlike lJ the old type of monitors the I Arkansas will wilt have state rooms above the deck for the officers and crew crew but butI I the superstructure has been so S designed that it will n not affect the shin ahin should I the superstructure be destroyed In ac er action tion thus thUR retaining the virtue of the I monitor principle |