| Show Battleships in Danger a almost sorlous disaster on Jan rolvlng three ot our battleships ready disturb the American peo IC Flvo of tho more modern battle t 1 gof the eight that make up the il 8 ttshlp squadron of tho North At l1 ijj fleet ono of tho finest In the d w r wero engaged In an ordinary routlne r maneuver Working against Wtiltuand tldo the line of battleships otl rasaihrown Into confusion by one t f unnlng aground and It required 0Ih I eatest exertion to prevent thee the-e ictlon of the Kearsarge the rC cky and the Alabama 1 it was the Kearsarye was run r End to prevent a collision with mil randed Kentucky and the Ala the third ship in line crashed at ho Kentucky All the vessels a It the Kentucky were able to pro o Hampton roads but the squad vt liS crippled as badly In getting i7 1 I M t 1rNtv 4 13 Fll tsij i i y r + Il1P + 101 r tt M + i drY1rlrr t tQ al d Y Nf w to I r l I Code H SA N ng islgNo b ll Tu New York harbor as It would er f a been In an ordinary naval en e a ent laps la disaster will provoke the more r slon In foreign naval circles be of each one of the battleships Inn In-n I d had a fine record for seaworth en as well as for fighting ovolu i The Kearsarge tho Kentucky S II ho Alabama had come victor of v om the severest tests In long itrayages and In all sorts of weather Jpe iKearsarge and the Kentucky had f left the dry dock nt the New ler kJnavy yard after slight repairs Illinois had been thoroughly md auled at the Boston navy yard JdE e vessels of tho battleship meta Iron Including the Missouri and Ul dlana were In splendid condl Itr or a cruise The Indiana redo re-do ed In the last two years has as een put In commission to take tad ace of the Massachusetts which It out of commission for repairs i act the North Atlantic fleet In i be1 a g the four new armored cruls mid as never In better condition for live work All the vessels ex id the coast squadron were to pro I br to Culebru for the winter ma epvers mid yet at the very begin of this Active campaign the very II Ior of the fleet narrowly escaped III f er In getting out of a home bar ng rr Illl t < A eems clear that the navigators ho i e not at fault It la officially re r Df t I that the vessels were proceed of e1in the regulation formation fol felWI the flagship In line at a dls n tILB 11 of 1200 feet But It the dls In ji u w Interval Is not great enough to 10 EfMfe a battleship to maneuver In I a ws t why should It have been main wwii In this case or in 1 any other I sinking of the battleship Vie UPu by the battleship Camperdown frltW 22 1893 aroused the Brltsh idt4T department to tho folly of fol If iPw literally routine or standing IVb fdMlf under all circumstances The ita Mediterranean fleet was ma at Ing off Tripoli Tho Victorian Victoria-n t gshlp of Vice Admiral Tryon ding one column Of tho fleet 0 L o i Camperdown the flagship of hoc dmlral Markham was leading d 1 her to order was for tho columns at il il I to reverse sailing direction rj1 ward each ship to follow Its lat a distance of 3000 feet In nu raf the turn the ram of the Cam etc ii In struck tho Victoria at an ref tot eighty degrees on tho start star-t r4ow about twenty feet forward He ilSv turret and the Victoria went ccatoWtwitln Vice Admiral Tryon andes and-es 30p cers and men csio court martial that Invostlgat of 11 I a ° disaster hold that the maneu a pC s dangerous and expressed re Orc JOidr at Rear Adlmlrnl Markham rs IS it disobeyed the order the car otij > ut of which seemed to him cer ro jj result disastrously oed ICampordown I episode resulted a E oral Important changes In Britoil Brit-oil val routine It is possible that aDt ent mixup In our battleship lIa1Q on may lesult In changes inn fob dr in-n naval routine t Af a ter S 4 t Irv M a f r t r f I r 1 px + 1 l tL ° Se 1l u Wt xlrmr r r t r g l 1 t f r r 7 r 6 F A t s r I 4t I Isi µ e 1e r 1 f ow a 0 f Titc WS r 1 j t > LNND r rq These three battleships figured In a remarkable naval accident In New York bay Jan 7 The Kentucky which ran aground and was rammed by tile Alabama Is In the picture at the upper left The Alabama Is In the upper right At the lower left Is the Kearsage which also ran aground The diagram in the lower right shows how the accidents occurred It is drawn from a description furnished by Rear Admiral Davis |
