| Show THE OREGON the coast line battleship oregon which was waa launched at the union ship yards october in the pre aenice or of n vast multitude will when completed be one of the most moat powerful f ul vessels ot of the navy A A very net neat device was ua d for effecting the final cut which set the huge craft free I 1 instead of the traditional silver ail ver hatchet au an electric guillotine had been erected when mise eugene bielby representing senti tig the city of forkla Purt Jaud ud touched a button a sharp blade was liberated and tell jell twenty five feet cutting the small email rope below whereby the dog shores and wedges were set tree and the ship slid elid off the ways gracefully plunging into its ita own element the vessel Is ie expected to be ready for its ita trial trip by next march she will have fou four r main boilers bol lere each fit teen feet in diameter and eighteen feet long there are also aleo two auxiliary boilers ten feet two lucuies in diameter and eight feet six inches long the main boilers have lour four furnace two at either ond making eight in all allwhite while each of the auxiliary boilers has baa two furnaces furn acea these are of corrugated iron the two engines which are to drive twin screws are of the horizontal type it to is expected that we the combined indicated horsepower of both engines will be about and that they will make turns a minute the speed ig ia figured at fifteen knots the armament la Is very heavy there will be four thirteen inoa breech breach leading rifles to be placed in two turrets and eight eight inch rifles in four turret four six inch rifles to in five inch armor plate sponsors and twenty four six pound rapid firing rifles to be mounted on the superstructure and bridge together with eight one gounde ro there are six torpedo tubes one at the bow one at the stern and two at either broadside for the further protection or of the vessel thereto there is a 0 fler dam extending tore fore and abaft twelve feet deep and six feet in breadth this thia is filled with cellulose should the armor plate be penetrate ratel J and the hole filled with water this eel col would at once become spongy and fill up the breach preventing the water from filling fil liot the vessel the steel armor plate is sixteen inocea ancher thick thich the diagonal fourteen the bar bettes seventeen and the abe turrets fifteen inches long may the oregon rule the he waves I 1 |
