Show l COL6N MARIATER < 1 6LF0l 4SOXIlo QRLOSIV1 MAR qUES O AE SFNADA 1 < t DE LUIZ NISSLAVZCUSIA WAANOA e t I J t 5 Is Is i i L HEIR I YX 4 qKfm JVtrTV ri1 Zt I r = J JvvTrr rid An gly XWZ 7 w n he 7 3er xp Ila tlol ALMIRANTE OqUENDO OCERROR FEROR ani PELAYO VIZCAYA AUDAi Q sp 0 0 red LEPANTO wh CIA t sit I STRENGTH OF THE SPANISH NAVY all rel th Ca a The Fighting Slzi ski of King Alfonso In Baffle s-ki M A I Vas Array Important Interview With General Daniel E Sickles Ex United States Minister to Spain of 4 7 tcopyrtsht ISSn ISS-n General Daniel U Sickles who was United States minister to Spain during the last Cuban war hag been reported since the present trouble began as peaking In disparagement of the Spanish Span-ish navy Tu a press representative wboaekd him for a definite statement I of hls view the general said Any rating of the Spanish navy as It stood at the opening of this war or even up to a year or so ago is I out of date todaY to-daY I Rm not an expert In naval mot term and speak only from observation Rnd expert ence among lighting menThe men-The naval armament of Spain has Improved Im-proved even within the past year and taken as a whole Is I today quite the equal of our own In point of efficiency hips and guns Spain has been en ercetlcally at work the past year 10 anticipation of combat and her activity activi-ty has been successful to the extent of her means All her resources have been devoted to that She baa not paid her army but has spent the money ont on-t r hr navy It to I better than It has been for years Her torpedo fleet should not be dangerous In actual combat except nt nlgbt or during n tog Long range guns could neutralize torpedo boats with a fair chance to sight them As for battleships we have three superior to any three Spain has and may soon have four I mean the Indiana In-diana Iowa and Maaacbutt and the Oregon when ready In ships of the f c7e iCbl second class ot which the Vlzcaya I Is j one I do not think our superiority Is I t so marked In torpedo boats and torpedo I tor-pedo boat destroyers Spain has the advantage ad-vantage at present frankly then making due allowance allow-ance the tiio navles are a close I match eu iJ so far as vessels go Cut I look for a dlplay ot superiority in officers In dls clpllne I In appointments and equip j mnta on the part of our navy hence o we may have the advantage in close fighting A modern chip of war to 1 an 04 Intricate and complicated eng me and I tor efficiency In action cool headed An I eloSaxons are better than hot blooded t excitable Latin England always showi Ii superiority In this respect over warm blooded nations Only Americana cat 4Sf too rva fight England to advantage at sea t Americans have all the natural quail ties of the English and are also good navigators We should not underrate our foe The Spaniards are brave and fc t plucky but hot blooded In the confu j Ion of battle they will not equal our amen The machinery of a modern j t hip la I soon out of order In heated ac i tlon The turrets get last the wrong ammunition Is brought forward the steering apparatus gets disabled and a high state or discipline of coolness and aelf possession Is I nee sary to success L have been Informed from a Kuropenr ourco that Spain has retained English and Scotch engineers to handle her hips of war 11 II the two fleets come together I look for the destruction of halt of each ol them Theyll fight sure and It will nol be at five miles or three miles or one I I mile but they will come to close action A tew shots from the heavy gun WII destroy a i vessel Spains one disadvantage on this slili the ocean will be lack of docks too IT Into for repairs and to-o She huX but the one In Havana at nl best nt that Is lost to her she cant refit with r tc out crossin I g the Atlantic In the matter of construction some ot the earlier altipa i pUr oli I of both navies will prove faulty Bien I cannot fight In close cramped quarters This was shown during our war eplic i I 0 daily In tlm cases of the Confederate 1 tronclads Tennessee and Atlanta t flst3 engngements between tile D t United States and Spain mean horrible sanguinary 1 encounters such as the Yn world has never seen The result of a I sea battle will be annihilation for one 1i and possibly the almost complete destruction struction of the other antagonist It th t Is quite I possible I that a fight at sea will j end In the I sinking of both warships i A 11 comparison of the fleets of this 6 country and of Spain to I of paramount Importance to enable one tu accurately forecast the result of a HpanoAmerl call conflict An the tO navien are constituted con-stituted at present without taking Into consideration the vessels that comprise the reserve of both countries and the vessels that are not on the fighting strength of our navy but which patriotIsm patriot-Ism would speedily place there the following fol-lowing Is I significant The new warships war-ships Spain Is I reported to have recently recent-ly purchased and those we have bought are not Included In the appended list and neither does it Include those which are now being built BPAWl DIpIAcmnt Ton Guna MTnlorCarlosV turret ship 9 ouo 20 111y brtKtt me 37 A = nta Mirta lercsa 701 11X 30 30 Cristobal Colon Otto J ilncvsu de Asturlus 6IS = 1 It111 III11 J Alfonso Xill 5 3 I t 4k2a 5 1 = e U I 030 1 W Is Cub I < > I II tie Luson lorn 12 Argn gg t entilla 3 342 22 Condo do Venadltn 1 130 13 B Antonio Joe da A Ulloa a 1 Hg WU Ua Isabel I 112U 11 I I Cano tl 7 1 lllplnns 71 1 10 Hilda lues de Slollni i 171 671 If Mr In Alamo 1lnion 71 7 umnela conning ower arM 75 Vc1x M 180 5 TorpedobOdtAuaax IN Ii Anettfl 97 4 Torpedo boat Osnda 105 4 Torpido Ctr par Sol pedo eu boat boat 1AUrr0r nHmm 97 97 zi 3 3 a foiiui w 3 UNITED STATES Afarachuetta 102a 42 t 3 Indiana 10 I 4d < J law L 11410 II ton g V1 4b 5 Texas two turrets N llrookljn I 9XI U g fig i New Vork ii 8 M Si Mlantonomoli two turrets 3 J10 9 Terror two turrets 3 a1 1O ID Amphitrite two turrets 399J 12 1 Columbia unt two turrets 7175 61 W 2J ll Newark 4038 11 Mav Alan rlcsson 1119o lulling l t emery Nffffffiijjj j 3 S 177 105 M 213 1M IN 25 i 3 < 3 llletto 31 Kaahdln ram The United Stutes navy further con Slots ot the following battleships Kentucky Alabama Keaisarge Illinois Il-linois and Wisconsin 13 single turret monitors 11 unarmored steel vessels 1 11 gunboats 9 too pdo boats one of them the Plunger being submarine Eleven more of the latter class will be ready for erIe soon Spain has on hand then a fleet of 3J vessels Including torpedo boats These ships represent a displacement jif70002 tons with 432 runs torpedoes on every vessel of the fleet and an equipment that pitting point nealnst point Is I I su perlur to that of the United States Slut In reality we have the mole tor mldable navy for on our side ale all the elements nt that In the opinion of experts I I will constitute superiority In naval battle bat-tle 11 Is I not the numb r of ships or he number 01 unns Shut count so much as the thickness of the armor end the caliber of tho guns and as of old the fighting spirit of the men In all tiles tlculars Ametlca has a decided ad onta 1 Chas Spain s actual Ithtlnc flot onlt 01 live thoroughly efficient well Equipped armored cruisers and cncnblo < T > odUd battleship This I xjwerful fleet has a total of 41 090 ton displacement with the caliber and number ot guns as follow Caliber Number 15 Inh 3 IS 5 6 I inch > > 1 1 j I 10 41 13 2 4 I The spcid of the Csels averages 20 knots nn hour The hastily muLlllze American fleet consists Of the cruisers Columbia New York IJrooklyn and I Minneapolis forming the flying squadron ron and behind them a Sleet of 13 Nes sels Including the monitors The total displacement of this naval body Is 84 1 GOO tons Their speed U I from 12 to 22 knots an hour and they have mounted guns of the following number and caliber Caliber Numbers 22 13 Number-s InCIL Inch inch jjjjjij I 5 4 t Inch Inch c v jj > t > ij I The Castlllan king has the following complete naval armada Armored or protected vessels 17 Unprotected oil Its i So 17 oV olKatuVstrre II rorpedojiats i M llut many of these are vessels of obsolete ob-solete type others are not equipped and the gunboats could not take part Inn In-n sea fight Tho backbone of a real navy is necessarily In Its battleships and larger cruisers The genuine fighting strength of the two countries Is I exhibited In this tabulated statement UNITED STATES NumberTonnaiie I Battleships of the first cluss 4lilzlwo Battleships of the second class I 600 Armored Coast defense cruisers Vc 20ITIN3 20 Smaller Unarmor er C00 crulners d 0 crulset lruwl find TIp gunboats to 1 N Soo Torpedo beat a St = i qers M ntl1hlp 01 the IIr d t 91 < 10 Al 1 2110 Itto N111 0111P 3UIhlp I 01 he second cl a 1001 Ilf low J j 1 SIR 1040D lim = Sia over ibr cruisers t and gunboats 21 1I1II thus be seen that our tonnngo j to I far greater In unnrmord cruisers we hoe a distinct advantage and our ship generally are larger and more modern Only In seagoing torpedo boats bas Spain any marked superiority superior-ity ityPut Put many Spanish vessels Jinve structural struc-tural weaknesses The artillery of the 1luIo can Pierce the strongest armors but Us capacity for coal does not allow It 10 take on enough for a trip of over 3000 miles The cruisers lmlrante Ociuendo Infanta Maria Teresa and Vlzcayu are not entirely protected The cruisers Alfonso XH and Ilelim Christina Chris-tina are unprotected while the Alfonso XIII Is absolutely unprotected Ill hull can be perforated by guns i small I call ber and It Is I consequently useless against battleships In a naval contest These Veseqls ennnot tam over 4000 miles without recoallnc The cruisers Conde de Vcnadlto Marques I Mar-ques de la Knsenoda Isla de Luzon Infanta Isabel Don Juan de Austria and Don Antonio de Ulloa are wholly unprotected and make only from 13 to 14 miles an hour None ot them would be of service In a naval battle They would be useful only In minor capacities I capaci-ties because they must keep any from the enmy strong armored and mod ern warhlp and on account of their slowness they cannot Ie employed as cruisers between better ships of a navy or from a navy to a Spanish port The torpedo boats are of IS knots speed and have other good qualities but they are available only when It Is I possible to surprise a battleship or cruiser It Is I difficult to conjecture whether or not the Carlos V Is I of any particular value She was constructed by the shipbuilding firm of Vega Mur gula ot Cadiz which built the gunboat rillplnas now officially declared to be wortbls The ti pedogunboatm Marqu de la Vltorla Dona Maria de Mo I no and Don Alvaro I de ISaran were built by the house of Gllotero of Ferrol which also constructed the gunboats Terla Itubl and Diamante now declared to bo deficient and likewise the Cialicla Neuva Espana the Mollno and the Pin zon which according to contract were to show n speed of 20 knots but have been unable to make more than 18 On April 6 Italy sold to Spain the armored ar-mored cruiser lluseppe Garibaldi She Is n steel vessel of G 840 tons and 13000 Indicated 1 horsepower Her length Is I 323 feet beam C9 feet 8 Inches with a draft of SI feet The cruiser has a belt of six Inches of harvevlzed steel six Inch of the same metal or hr gun positions and her armored < belt Is I 14 inches thick The armament of the Garibaldi consists of two 10 Inch guns ten 6 Inch quick firing guns six 407 Inch gun ten 203 Inch guns ten 101 Inch guns and two maxim guns In addl tlon to four torpedo tubes Her spied Is I estimated at 20 knots She carries 1000 tons of coal and has a crew of 450 menThe The Pelayo Is I tho representative Spanlh arablp The Indiana Is our most formidable sea fighter The former has a tonnage of 0900 and the latter of 10288 The number of guns respectively re-spectively Is I 37 and 40 A struggle between be-tween these two would settle the ques tleT eql tlon of naval supremacy These few fact are the condensation 01 a volume ALDUItT P SOUTHWICK 4 W A TV A AV k 1h 4ro 9H W yJ g 4 feAl C If 3 a IFE T = = = Ils The David and Goliath of the Navy How the Smallest t f 4 t 0 w Torpedo Boat Can C Sink the Largest AT IM6 Battleship i |