Show NEW HEW SHIPS Hnis hing up a batch begun beelin years ago THE fhe TERROR IS A NOVELTY now how ideas in narino marino mechanics that win will depend upon her trials to determine their value the lar larger larer er of the tha two monitors to ile he and ready beady for her trial within six months copyright by Da cleer johnson Ba aeller new york jan 9 ima whether or not the war cloud on the oriental horizon has stimulated activity in that direction the work on a number of unco unc saris sams new warships war ships Is being pushed by the men in the navy yards the tha necessity for calling so many of 0 our oar new cruisers into foreign waters has perhaps awakened the powers nt at washington to ft a realization of the fact that our barbers Siai bora must not he be left def defenseless ensele and a batch of monr monitors tors sr arteil away back in the rev twenties enties Is being finished up now fo Q active service with the tao fast gronin white squadron squad roa TM ove twenty tn enty years ngo ago congress ConST jip ap more than SZ for tie the warships haal ha had to delay 9 going 7 into for il le lack of a c crew T the h e training ships have been emptied of 0 their supply by ve vessels sels recently com miss lonea and many more men well be needed within wiehl in the next six fix months beside the ahe terror arid ami the th puritan which will carry HI and ISO respectively the cruiser M maine iino will require about more in the spring of the four sister monitors tho the terror perhaps will be the most interesting because the success of several new ideas in marine marina mechanics will w d depend upon her pneumatic power will be used lor for ilia first time on the terror for revolving the currents tur rents tor for elevating anil and handling handlir Lg tho the great arrest 10 inch steel rifles inside ot of them and for ete steering ering the ship steam and hy hv drai ille power have both been used in the big warships but pneumatic power has never before been tried another new feature of tho the terror will be the electrical connections from both allot hoube and turre turrets ts to the pneumatic machinery for both of 0 these in are sue suj Z possibilities ovations tons rosy rested and those who have seen tests of the r machinery chinery la involved seem to think they will be sue successful osseful the puritan will be ba the large st monitor ever built and Is thought equal to a whole fort in herself tor for h harbor ar de defense fenre her 12 inch breech l load I 1 ing rifles two of 0 whir h will deal destruction st in tance tim e of action from each me it of the turrets are tile the biggest guns ever yet built for uncle sams ships with the single exception of a 13 inch rills rifle on the cruiser SI alne which has not yet gone into commission the largest guns on the mew cw york are S rines rifles the puritan will also have a conning tower like those on the cruisers crul lasers nil an advantage not enjoyed by any ally of the other monitors in time of maneuvered 1 I peace these vessels are sn An from the pit pilothouse pilot ot house but this la is part pan of tho the superstructure super structure and would be cleared away tor for active service in action all of the other moril I 1 I 1 I 1 a I 1 I 1 I 1 r ik I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t Z I 1 jr S zw 4 tr I 1 t I 1 11 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I V L I 1 j jj 1 I 1 0 W t S I 1 f Z 76 1 47 tito tha terror as she will look when completed I 1 building build ns of tour four monitors twin ships of feet each ch to be known as the and tenor ten or to this embryo squadron was to be added a fifth vessel planned after Erics sons famous 1 cheese box on a raft to be ba called tho the puritan the puritan however was to be thirty feet longer than the other oilier four and the largest vessel of its class ever constructed all AH of these rafts too were to have two cheese lyone broses as the revolving turrets were vere facetiously dubbed after the original Maril tors farst great creat victory at hampton roads of these ive five only one the has ever been nn fill dished altho ugin all five were started nt the asame time in the hulls of the others were built and their engines put I 1 in but tor for many years after the early stages of their manufacture they lay idly lyl in the yards of the government a cumulating rust and barnacles barnacled barn acles at a I 1 compound rate of interest some of oe ne ideas originally involved in the of these the only double I 1 tors must be handled from the turrets while the commander of the puritan will be ablo to steer and give his orders directly from the heavily protected conning tower one of the chief drawbacks urged against the building of 0 monitors Is their s and the instance of the man to nomah whose who se turrets leaked so badly that she had to put in behind the delaware break water for or ch shelter elter when caught in ill a storm on her way to the rendezvous lor for the big naval celebration at new york a few years ago Is given as an example while the moni monitors are intended chiefly for harbor defence and it Is not intended to send them to sea any more than Is absolutely necessary every effort is being made to prove prevent nt a repetition oi of the 15 experience practically the only danger to that vessel was from the enormous leakage around the bottom of her turrets when she started out to sea the big guns were lashed down and the edges ap N I 1 1 r I 1 A I 1 1 11 ra W II 11 75 k il 1 j 4 P I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 V 1 11 1 2 4 71 1 ri Z 1 1 I it T I 1 1 I I 1 19 1 ill f 1 I 1 7 I 1 14 I 1 1 I I 1 4 1 n I 1 4 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 1 17 S 10 na f 11 ei r 2 I 1 3 I 1 Z wl X it 0 it JAC 4 P lr 5 or 11 C 4 I 1 1 l 1 fk A 1 1 I 1 J r T I 1 I 1 1 c P I 1 ls I 1 4 V I 1 i g V 45 1 4 1 i clr 1 n a I 1 15 Z Q p X if ka V 1 r 1 5 VJ i 5 1 1 I pla 2 tz 1 1 1 16 ac III j L b 7 11 1 M RP lt R i ir vz za X za J le 91 r 9 1 I 1 OR IA zil fal X 7 1 FN a E xi Z 14 1 4 I 1 r I 1 I 1 r ia M A 1 k al 1 I bi q rl pj I 1 pi A 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 kv vv ay I 1 V fa M V tj I 1 F null hull of the united states Vio monitor puritan in dry dock I 1 turreted tin monitors in the navy were revolutionized after the bulls were completed and tor for some years their progress if any had been contemplated was checked until changes had been decided upon when the plans had been remodeled work rk was again started arted Bt the hulls ot of the Ter terror roe and the puritan were towed to the new york navy yard at al brooklyn about six years ago and work has progressed essed on them spasmodically since them thea the Is 13 being completed at the norfolk navy yard while the Monad noak Is progressing slowly at the maj maja a island navy yard on the pa ciale coast since ainee the big cruiser maine laine lk was launched and gotten well toward completion the he force orce of the yard has been concentrated upon the two monitors which are arc now being completed rapidly the puritan has gone into the dock which the Ill illaine ll alne left and he work of bolting her thick steel plates has been taken up where it WOE left ok off several years ago aeo irom from her de del klino k lino which 13 only three feet nub of water to considerably consides ably lidow lie low the wa ter una the puritan Pui itan will ha lj protected the heaviest kind of armor this will vary in thickness from fourteen james inches to about eight inches behtz the level of the water anil and the labor involved in fastening faste aing these slabs of iron iran to tha hull Is 13 both loni long and it is believed however hoT ever that the larger of the two monitors will be and ready tor for her trial trip within six roon hs the enor guns which will tan ba her chief y weapons pi pons lie at the aide of the dock along with the iron for her turrets lu rreta two 0 of the Purl puritans tans eight el i bollers bolc rs were ware taken out when bhea she was remodelled remodel led and nd new ones put in their places but otherwise her machinery find engines are arc the ame iame i as were oreg orl anally rut in her when she waa first built her currents tur rents conning tower bat ceries s and ture will be in aln ish d up and put in place when the ar mor plating Is completed and the ve vessel vesel sel Is again put back into the watce the terror is a t little further on toward com completion completa on and it Is thouc thought clit that she bhe v will be ba ready tor for her trial trips early in the three months before the purl tan tn in cane caise of necessity that la Is it if war should suddenly break out or oller alber hurried call for deferia defense vc vesela asels be received the terror terrol could tie be d up for service within a month site Is tied to the wharf w where ehe bhe has lain for or years and the workmen arc bruiy buli put her tops and hi her smaller very little of the pi ill eting reni aino to be done and mot mont of the work duriac the if winter inter will iril he be in fitting up below decks some of 0 the im machinery whinery has been a allt ile d bayed by the manufacturers l but I 1 the iliin will probably be ready before B e cerv can be secured to ina wan her I 1 I 1 11 1 71 ii of the turrets packed rut the pounding of the great rifles when the storm came up was so great that the turrets worked loose joose from the packing and she took in water wa te r faster fasic r than it could be pumped outto obviate this difficulty a new system by which the heavy guns g uns will be fastened in place when the ship rolls will bo be introduced A new kind of rubber packing has also been devised d e that Is said to be so efficacious that thai there Is practically no danger from leakage on the new naw monitors even it if the decks are awash continually the bull bullof of t the he terror was built in 1874 by william cramp sons at philadelphia like all three ot of her sister ships she Is teet feet 6 inches long on the ithe water line and has a displacement of 2331 1930 tons her beam Is 53 55 feet 10 inches and the moan draught 1 feet 6 linches she has twin screws I 1 and inclined compound engines show ine it a an indicated capacity of 1600 iho horse power her speed Is intended to be 12 knots kno tsan an hour although the result of her trial trip will lie be the first 0 of she ha has 3 e exceeded X or rallen fallen below this requirement her coal bunkers will b have lave a capacity Y of 0 3 12 tons tona tho the Ter terror roel will have tour four 10 inch breech loading rifles two in each cach of at the revolving turrets which will compose her main battery her secondary battery will have two six pound rapid fire cre guns two thres threet pound rapid fire guns two 37 mm hotchkiss revolving cannon and two catling guns guna her sides are protected by a hand band of 0 7 inch plate armor on the turrets tho the plates awill will bo be Ws 1112 inches thick while hor her decks will lie be protected by 1 t inches oi of iron i the puritan was built in 1871 1874 by the unfortunate john roach at MR his yards yarda in chester cheater pa she la Is feet G inches in length on the water line and has a displacement of tons her beam and draught are am respectively 60 feet 11 1 itches inches and 38 feet feel she has hag compound horizontal crighley which drive twin screws with an indicated horse power of 0 these are arc expected to make rn ke knots an hour but the navy byard yard officials are hoping for nearly lo 10 knots higher than these figures kusures ver S er bunkers will have a capacity of to 0 tons of coal the puritan Puri tarl will have H 14 inch aid side and 8 inches of iron to protect h her r turrets on her barbette there will bo be 14 inches or ar armor nor while her decks decka will carry two lucli plates she will be more heavily armed than any other boat of 0 her size ever built in each eacle of her great revolving turrets othere there will be two 12 inch breech loading billop while she will also have six 4 inoh rapid fire guns in her main battery her secondary battery will nil be I com competed compo ted of 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