| Show 1 trl ABOUT OUR NAVY Dehlnd the heavy Armor there IS I a Padding lit either Om pith or cocoa hUlk 1 Darnacl form on the hull of a ship Im edlng III sped A six months rule will decreitse the speed ot a ship IS Ir lb cent And she must then go into dry tlmk The oldest Iron vessel Is the Mlchl gnn built In JU There tire Six rear admirals In active service The allies ot vice admiral and T Admitted are unfilled so there Is I no head ot the navy excepting Secretary Long The biggest guns In the navy are 49 feet long nnd big enough for a man to vra1 Into Great Drltaln has 291 torpedo boats anti torpedo boat destroyers Uncle Sam loss only eight The guns of a battleship call carry iiWi from 8 to 12 mites hurling a shot weighIng weigh-Ing holt a Ion It costs 500 every time one of the very big guns on board a ship li I fired Ve have four armored battleships the Indiana Iowa Massachusetts and Texas In n battle all tho wooowork and all articles ot wood are either stewed be low or thrown overboard lest the men be Injured by splinters All of the cruisers are named In honor of cities and the battleships except the Kearsarge In honor of states The boilers of the Iowa have a heat Ing surface ot eight acres and hold SO Ions of water I The grog ration was abolished In 1SC3 tWin and since then the crew has ben for bidden I to drink while on dUly Battleships rors covered with armor ot nickel steel from five Inches 10 thickness thick-ness upward An act of congress In 1872 abolished flogging In the navy Our battleships have a peed ot from 15 to 17 knots an hour Cruisers make Aft 10 to 21 knots whllo the monitor less than half an fast art The fastest vessels In our 01 n4 Dufx the torpedo boats Porter 27 anilv 5 fo As each of which can travel hour board 0ill MarInes are tho police on boar emplojeJ 101 Originally they were rnplo vent mutiny among the sailors J |
