Show IHE NEW SUPERPOSED IIRRJl It is Destined to Create a Revolution in the Navies of the I World According to the Belief of Experts and is the Most l Important Development of Recent Times This paper now presents I full por Irayal of what Is known as tho superposed super-posed turret which Is coining so much po et Irret w1c1 Into prominence for the equjpmonls of battleships In the United States navy and which will cause a revolution in naval architecture all ovcr the world Pains have been taken to make the picture so clear that anyone can understand un-derstand iho system by which these terrible engines of war are manipulated manipu-lated and the diagrams will help the reader to comprehend what really takes place on board the warships when the deadly volleys are pouring their dreaded contents Into the enemys craft The design of our authorities has been to secure an equipment which would be superior If possible to lhat I of any other naval power And from the most recent experiments made It is apparent that they have largely succeeded suc-ceeded In doing this The equipment of the Kentsurge Is I such that from her broadsides projectiles projec-tiles weighing 85000 pounds can be discharged dis-charged every fifteen minutes and it Is from experiments nmdo with the turrets of this vessel that the most Important Im-portant recent deductions have been made In lhe Kearsarge the latest Ideas have been put Into operation and a great many of the earlier notions regarding re-garding turrets have been disposed of The Kcnrsnrge Is lilted with two complete Slneh turrets protected with fifteen Inches of Harvey armor In this vessel the handling rooms shell rooms magazines nnd operating machinery have been eliminated altogether for the purpose of simplifying the system pursued in the equipment of the Iowa and the Oregon earlier vessels ves-sels of her type It Is also claimed that the lessening of the size of tile turrets makes It a more dlfllcult matter for the enemys gunners lo hit them thereby there-by assuring their greater safety The main battery of the Kearsurge consists con-sists of fourteen 5lneh rapidlire guns and twenty Gpoundcrs supplemented by eight automatic 1poundcrs nnd six mlllmetor guns In the tops This battery bat-tery could promptly silence the fro fr-o any battleship afloat By the arrangement of the guns one man can train four guns his duty consisting entirely I of keeping the target tar-get on precisely as directed Each gun has an Independent pointer who looks only after the elevation so that ono gun or all may be fired differently differ-ently according lo the desire of the ofllcer commanding the turret The turrets are capable of revolving once a minute so that In case a couple or more vessels might attack the heavier guns could be used upon the most powerful antagonist while the stnalkr ones could be reserved for the leas important foe Our picture shows the entire system of the turret from Its base to the tops where the guns of smaller caliber are statlonad and there Is nothing needed but the actual bellowing of the discharge dis-charge to make It n vivid photograph of what is going on during a battle in the most Important part of the ship While the men In the turret are busy getting the bead on the enemys most volnerable spots and the deadly missiles mis-siles are being put Into them as rapidly as they are discharged the men below be-low In the magazine are Just us busy sending upstairs through the hoists sendlns the necessary material for the battery In the opinion of naval experts there Is no vessel affoat which could stand the fire from the superposed turrets of tho Kcarsarge for very long I Is more than likely that the Improvement Im-provement made In the Kearsurge through the Invention of Ensign Strauss will be duplicated In the equipment equip-ment of the Pennsylvania by another an-other stride of similar dimensions to1 that made over the arrangements of the Iowas turrets The turret equipment of the Iowa compilscs four liMnuh eight Slnch guns and six rapidfire guns but i la I claimed that the greater numberof rapidlire pieces make tht battery of the Kcursargc more effective than thut o the Iowa by a ratio of 42 to 21 The twelveInch guns of the latter are disposed of In pairs In single turrets fore and aft line of the ship while the eightinch are protected by 1 turrets placed at the four corners of an armored ar-mored fort placed amidships between the main turrets The disadvantage of this arrangement arrange-ment compared with the disposition of the turrets on the Kearsargc seems to be that It is not so easy to concentrate concen-trate an attack from the armament of I one vessel as the blast of the eightInch guns affects the crew In the lower turrets tur-rets retsNaval Naval experts who are studying this Important question deeply with a view to having the Pennsylvania receive I all the possible advantage lhat can accrue front a proper disposition of Its turrets are talking of having Independent I pendent as well as superposed turrets which they thlnlc would make the strongest combination yet tried Il Is proposed to increase the number of turrets to four for this battleship placing the equipment i already aboard at the fore comers of the fort and the I others In the two cornets aft This would secure 0 general disposition of the armament which would make the Pennsylvania a terrific enemy to encounter en-counter or If her battery Is Instead of being placed in superposed turrets put In ordinary ones and the turrets placed amidships others suggest the building of aponsons so as to afford better sighting for Ilrlng fore and aCt In any case there are likely to be Improvements made In iho turret system sys-tem of the Pennsylvania and we may look for the greatest development In the offensive power of modern naval batteries through the superposed turrets tur-rets that has come along in many years WfrIthtf1 f 4 A z 4i4c 6r = = = = I V 0 i a 3vi d J 4 r Ir i 1 f rT41 I f s 1 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Bottom Of Sh PAll P-All the world is watching with intonso anxiety the development of our new battleship the Kcarsargo which ic equipped with the new superimposed turrets considered by naval authorities tho greatest invention in-vention of the century The illustration shows tho Kearsargo in action and is the best ever published |