Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-08-07 | Page 12 | U. S. Will Launch World's Greatest Warship

i i Ii ID US U.S. S S. S W Will i i i L Launch a u n c h Worlds World's o ri d s Gre Greatest tes Warship 1 I A s1 p p j I 4 3 r I 1 J I j I rm j I 33 2 The U. U S. S S. S Maryland worlds world's greatest warship and one of its giant gant turbino generators Inset is s picture of Captain Chari Charles es c F F. F Pr Preston I I I I By Newspaper r Enterprise NEWPORT yPORT NEWS Va Ya Aug 6 Queen Queen of at the Seas That's what the new electrically driven drien dri en U. U S. S S. S Mar Maryland land most modern modem battleship battleship bat bat- of at the world worldS will vill be when she sheI points her nose seaward off oft the Virginia const coast earl early In November ember She has already alread had her builders builders' trials and according to Captain Charles F. F i Preston PrE who has been assigned to her comman command staged a L perfect performance In every every det detail ll The Maryland 1 Is the tho latest latent completed achievement of ot American naval archi tests She carries eight inch 16 guns puns tho the largest larKe t ever mounted on a 0 battle battle- ship The They fire Ire a a. shell weighing Wels 2100 pounds a L of ot twenty mlles miles Thc They measure 57 feet In length The secondary battery of or ot fourteen inch 5 guns is for use against torpedo boats submarines and smaller craft There are also tour four 3 Inch antiaircraft guns SUns and two underwater Inch 21 torpedo tubes for tor firing tiring the largest and longest range rans-e Naval al architects believe It will be al almost almost almost al- al most Impossible to sink the Maryland Marland by an underwater attack Armor plate will stave stave- off ott all but the tho largest 1 caliber shells The ship with Its electric driving power pow pow- er cr er Installed b by the tho General Electric compan company com corn pany pan will have havo a n speed of ot 21 knots an hour and a cruising radius of ot miles She will burn oil nor her fuel being about gallons The slon sion machinery consists of ot two Curtis steam turbine turbino generators which supply power to four tour horsepower Induction motors direct directly connected with four tour pro pro- The Tho ship Is 18 feet teet long h has s a a. beam of feet teet and weighs tons