| Show WAS A IOWIIt VVI MM tcMCl Won Regard as On of the Mont In tho NY Washington Feb IGThe Maine Is I a bntlleshli 1 of the second class and Is I recorded ns one of the best ships In the I new navy She was built at Ihe Brooklyn navy lord and Is I 318 feet long 67 feet brand 316 mean draught and CCS tons tit turreis 11111d has two tLnlnlh verllral turrets nnd two mllltari mI and her motive power Is I furnished by twinscrew Vertical expansion ex-pansion engines having a maximum hornepo wer of 0 = 3 capable of making a sex of 1715 knots 1 lie carries four 30 Inch and six CInch C-Inch breech loading guns In her main lottery 1 and seven 6pouridtrs and eight lpound pldnre guns and four Oat lings In her secondary battery and Jour Whitehead orpodocs Capt SlgBh was In command The other olllcer were Lieutenant Comm Com-m J1dlr ntchnrd WIlITlghtIleula G F Holman John Hood and C W Yun gon Lieuts junior gmde O W 1Il0w J T lIIanlIn F NV Jenkins Cadets J H Holelen W T Cluverlu AUNces IIronon and D 11 11od Jr Surgeon L G oneheler llu jnsaster Ila I 3 an Chief Inglntr C 11 to e 11 Iao Assistant lnlneer I C IINvem 0 allllnt Engineers J n Morris and D It Merrill Cadet Engineers J Pope Washington and Arthur Cron haw Chaplain J Is ChUwlch and Lieutenant Lieuten-ant of Moilncs A W Catlin |
