Show OF THE JE ME W r perpetuating a tame which must over ever have a prominent place la in the history of the world as written in these later day days the launching in III philadelphia of the new ne battleship milne Is I 1 to american beerta a ead sad reminder ot of one of 0 the moet most terrible tragedian of modern times it Is I 1 now three year years ani and more lace since the enactment ct that horror la in ilava ox us harbor and since tn tu the survivors have been scattered to all quarter quarters of the globe capt charles D Sits bee who coca coin the maine at the time of her er destruction has applied for or the command of the new maine blaine and it is tha than likely that the request w 11 be x granted and that ahe she will fly by his pen nant when tor for rr ce ot 01 the 25 of officers ficere who veto atta hea to the maine blaine at the time of 0 her was the first to notify cam sigsbee of the explosion on that fatal night in havana harbor sul ul eded in new lork ork last year capt sigsbee ho wa was given com pa of the st SL paul when the war broke out and who did eora some excellent 1 while commanding that vessel to 1 now chief of the naval intelligence office la in HI ills 1 effi efficient clent first lieutenant of the maine laetit n ant comoder richard law right he lie who oom the gloucester in that bloody reprisal off santiago is now superintendent of the naval academy at annapolis Ann apolla with the rank ot of commander having been advanced 10 numbers for hie his gallant work in destroying the spanish destroyers between the new maine blaine and the old ore we few lint point rits ot of resemblance the fl flit st was rated as a second class battle ship v alth ith a display displacement ement of only 6 68 1 tons her namesake la Is nearly twice aa as large displacing tons at normal draught drought the principal dimensions of the new battleship are length between per fed feet length over all feet ION 10 inches extreme breadth 72 feet mean draught 23 feet 6 inches ilLs displacement at normal draught tons estimated displacement at full load draugh 13 t tons aa an to type the new essel Is to be an improved alabama two knots taster faster than that fine battleship equipped with a more powerful armament and hedged about with a greater area of annor armor protection la lit the contract it Is stipulated that the she must on her official trial maintain a ped speed of 18 28 knot knots for four our conescu tit hours krupp armor the kind which lua lis recently given uch such striking proof proofs to is of its it resisting qualities is t to be used throughout the arsion or bell belt which la is uj le be 11 inches thick at the top taper ing ln to 71 inches at the bo torn tom extends to within CO GO feet of 0 the etera stera shielding the aides 3 feet abne the water ater line and four feet below it the armor li is to be six inches thick the barbette armor 12 inches la in front tapering to eight inches in the rear the protective deck will be 2 inches thick while aft where there Is no belt armor protection it la is thickened being four tour inches on the slope and three on the flat fist 40 the forward con tion four are dead tower will zing F W jea have 10 inch at kitia and engineer and the signal merritt inor barvin TI L in tower 6 Itic harmor losing their lives beut leading from the that tragedy joan J blandia conning tower to dying shortly the protective deck in his Is a steel tube in baltimore home tended to the voice tubes and and bore re antly ahlet telegraphs extend charles P howell ing from the com died in this city manding officers bill who station to the ofa below i nn tube is 12 inches la in diameter inside and ti Is protected by a steel covering co seven inches thick the engines are of 0 the twin screw triple expansion inverted vertical type the 24 Ni clausse ase boilers which are al ready well advanced and which will tie tt neary completed when the ship strikes the ater are expected to khe iga horse power the vessel will III a bunker capacity of 2 ton tons thie this at t 1 an eight knot speed will give her a steaming radius ot of 8 knots sufficient for two round trips from rora now ne york to queenstown Queene Queens town ireland nr or a trip halt half around cape horn |