| Show DESIGNED TO EIGHT WHAT A REAL battleship BATTLE DATTLE SLIP IS LIKE an officer of a monitor is Ite for a bew ilga billiat illiat may lit lie of great value to tile the navy not a thing of siuty beauty ei uty tho the accompanying sketch was waa made mada by a navil who has haa bad some experience on the larger monitors it represents in a vencial way his conception of the ideal battleship all ships are compromises and this design departs materially from tho the well known and approved monitor type lit in having a 0 superstructure forward ibis enables the ship to maintain M r 0 DESIGNED TO her speed in a head sea which Is wholly impracticable with the ordinary monitor although a aca abeam lias has but little effect on the speed of this peculiar craft for about two thirds of its length the design pie presents a freeboard of only thirty inches which may be considered the monitor standard stan the trpe fr board at the bow la Is ton ten feet the twelve inch guns are well located for or sea work nork being eighteen feet above tho the water line the turrets are housed in barrettes barbettes bar bettea bettes the height of each barbette above the deck Is twelve and one halt teet feet A lending stature Is the conning conling tower which is a tower in tact fact as well as in name naine it has haa a height of twenty seven and one halt foet feet above the water line la Is twenty five feet la in diameter aril twenty inches thick there la Is nothing equal to it now afloat t tr A e MAXI MAXIMS S NAVAL VAL FUN GUN it works borka and Is generally kept in a a conning tower the conning towers on hobt ships are mere death trips and min cora com ma manding tiding officers nety nay they would rather take their chances chanced on an open bridge than to occupy one of the alleged conning conling towers 11 the smoke pipe passes up through the center of the tower and receives protection from it tho the smoke pipe la Is utilized as aa a mast and carries the usual lighting fighting top and signal yard the top of the smoke pipe la Is feet above the water line and as the fighting top Is fifteen feet below the smoke outlet the men at taja top lop guns ought not to suffer any discomfort diA comfort aiom smoke the bar bettes and conning tower test on the main derk dek which Is two inches thick the side armor la Is continuous and has hag a mean thickness of twenty inches awen ty four inches amidships tapering to sixteen inches at the ends the depth 0 of f side armor Is six and one halt half feet I 1 lie he thickness of armor on turrets bar bettes and conning tower Is twenty inches tho the length of the vessel on water line Is JOO feet beam seventy feet draught forward and aft twenty Q and one halt half feet displacement about tons twin screw indicated horse power 5 speed about chit teen iteen and one half knots pel pei hour coal capacity tons main battery four twelve inch and six tour four inch guns secondary battery six six elx rapid firing guns and two thirty seven neveu mm min blotch klas kiss revolving cannon I 1 ahe lie sl etch represents the ship cleared tor for action the boats at other times being on oil the superstructure the presence of a lupei superstructure structure amidships adds much to the comfort om tort fort of a monitor s crew and does doca not increase her size as a target as bridges and other gear would the spice between the turrets and give the enemy as good a maik as docs a superstructure uie ute this point Is illustrated by a compa ilson of the and the the former hiving no superstructure tile the model of this design Is necessarily g L k 57 r xa e az 4 4 e THE COLUMBIA THE FASTEST VU VE IN TUG THE UNITED STATES NAV Y very full other otherwise tho the enormous armor weights could not be boine the absence of eight inch guns means a sacrifice of offensive power but there Is a coi responding biln g ain in armor protection and in general simplicity the ship can bo be commanded by one man mill handled by a small crew the do signer belle believes tit tint it this ship although costing coating not over two thirds ib ia much as tho the indiana and being much cheaper to maintain would m out be more than a match for or the pride of tho the Il ooster state |
