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Show NEW WAlt S.1II1-.S. roiirorThsiM Mill Itsnder the Abut la tlsliltact'oiidlllon. III Tbonslil. PlIILADELMlIA, IV. 15. By ntt spring the works of Willia.ni Crura? A Sons will be fabricating war matefirforrs; scale greatertbau lias ever been kiiowtr in the United States since the close cf th war. The firm hag undertaken (rj construction con-struction of fuurgrvat ships of war two of these will be the largest ever built in the United Slates aud the third will not only be the lirgest of Its class ever built in America, hut designed to bu thu fastest ship In the world. The fourth ves-el will W the largest armired cruiserosyet designed for the United StaU. For these four ve.se.ls fully $I2,tRl,wX) have been appropriated aud with their advent the American navy will reach a fighting standard never fctfr- attained. Of ttiri foe: ships to be built within with-in the next thii years-, one 8-500 ton armored cruiser, ihfxn as the c Fori, is already under fray. Her keel has been laid aud ioiui-thirty ioiui-thirty tramest. embodying the I ro-teithedeck, ro-teithedeck, erected. On thf two battleships, to l known as llaua-chuKiU&ui llaua-chuKiU&ui Indiana, no work is el show n. The same statement w ill apply to the vtssel enjoying the pseudonym of the JraCe, the vts-sel vts-sel referred to by the Secretary of thoTreaury in his recent re(irt as deIned to be "the fastest tn Hit world." I u general dimensions she w ill approach c'oso to the famcut Atlantic gray hound City of J'arit. It should V) known, Ilioueli. that the horeo poWer of the Cty oJ'arU has never gone Lejund a few horses over 1S.0H". The JVrctes eugints must make a miiiiissrri of 22,000 horse power. By virtue of thu TtssePs great leugth, her immense sliv and b.crcon-c-queut ability to luiintsni speed ri-jtardlcsof ri-jtardlcsof si-a. it itstlnrased that this new arqui-ltlon to Hie i.avy will have a continuous stiainlpg power cf 22 knct'au hour. The lt steaming speed eftl.e IVy J 'anion a rontinuuua run ha not exceeded 3U knots the average bi-iugaboutlVi. bi-iugaboutlVi. I'vale, on the other hand, with "a continuous speed ol 22 knob, will, it is tstimated, do 21 knoH on l-clir on a spurt. Such sptsd -i(l place every ship on the ivan oKhiu reach of her graj. Thb Jrale- 5s the craft lo be rn.-vldetl rn.-vldetl with triple scrt-T, one crei ou each qtnrteraud a s'lnale one in the tiositiun assignttl to tte pro-pellelB pro-pellelB on simile screw ship. |
