Show larina I 1 1 their 1 hi secrets 11 21 4 ift 46 BLOWN UI w tate of the maine remels other of the deep horrible and lanill Li nill X S A A till torill 0 IN lifur I 1 4 no navy nany Is free from front bad sad stories of 0 explosions i in its powder and ammini and since the begin our civil war aar the number of 0 lest lestroy roved ed bv b torpedoes in bobae torn farri or ly by submarine minis mines make mak a pome list Is it gener bosn 11 for or example that in the i seven monitors ind eleven asels ss els of 0 aar ar were totally de I 1 strayed t b submarine had pois possessed essed the same a at tha the be inning 0 of the war kahe glo gle woud would liane e been at thi the leat nuch much prolonged and the disaster to life and tonnage been ertly increased ik during our earl struggles sevan tenets were blown up notably the randolph ct of immortal memory lu but t tm biest pi atiat memorable roemo case and surely baat the pathetic itis is the de aon of the intrepid commanded by dy gallant nt somers she as is bittel a floating mine ani ant on the bitkoff september 4 1804 1834 I 1 trola fro 94 shore under sill s ill for the inner of tripoli anxious eyes i h her r from the he blockading feet eel ind and lit ten 0 clock a thunderous w WM heard a column of flame name aa seen cea in tile bl ua les lea and then the tile mara staret hundreds of guns mounted 15 one came back to tell the re I 1 t it Is 1 bell believed eNed that bomers somers B keptot kept Mt ord not to be taken albil haj the fenely one irly and blew up the ship leasko escape capture it vas nas learnd thit tw intrepid had grounded cl I 1 on the north orth ledge of the harbor and that she been at attacked taked b three gunboats h ift wag but mise I 1 but never known sh alb hatto MAO prevent the valuable alu able supply of 0 6 th falling into the hands of Y somers fired her dest destroy rov st tle sown own people and tho the Tripoli tans bg 9 out of their boats into the 7 american tender in june wooden ship fulton then as the receiving ship off blew up tip from causes never neier persons were mile around the ship still was littered with mth debris boits bo its put oft off from froin the shore and out of the m bhole hole ship ships a company of over oer ISO 10 souls only eight were s filed tied enlon plots biem hell to bo be the caup calne of tho the disaster dl ater and south merlei i and australia the scenes of police inquiry for months it Is now bel believed leed that the explosion ft as due to the spontaneous ignition of a paint then used in the british nay this under tinder deterioration or alien hen expose tu heat aas ft as foutin to give ghe off a highly inflammable ats is and as the drat first explosion occurred in lit the lib orLoo I 1 ot of the paint locker this plausible theor Is now accepted durier the lit years amo other cases have oc occurred burred one ahen in 1111 a spanish Sparil gh gunboat ft a as aloan up tip in the harbor of santiago Sint lago de cuba and the other tu lit ft N hen a most dam data na and distressing explosion occurred on board of the german armored ship baden then at anchor off kiel klel of the war inventions employed to florov dt rov ships by submarine or aerial s or by mines the number ie is legion anc ft were ere among the earliest to emiliy these and our contributions to tho history of to war tare fare have hae been very many and very notable the famous battle bittle of the kegs has been sung in mock heroic herolt verse anti the philadelphians ians ot of 1777 had many a merr jest oer the valorous attack made by the british gren adlers upon these inn tinus barrels capt david Bus bushnell briell of connecticut atas as one of the earliest eirl lest iest experimenters with torpedoes though rob ert k I 1 ulton was the to call a maga zinc of pow powder der intended for ue under water by this name this great inventor made many experiments t and the partisans and opponents of the new system filled the journals of that tbt day with acrimonious discussions the failure of torpedoes in the war of 1812 and the general feeling against this mode of as inhuman and sired aired moment they probed to be dinge dauger roua oui ard all till effort as thereafter directed to the dirigible or the automobile torpedo generally de scribed the tolled la Is or one abu contains its own oan propelling ani an i firing and is piloted fron ron tto the shore b of electric cablon au 1 aich function the machinery the automobile torpedo la is a weapon that Is 1 shot from front a tuba tube generuth ge callad a torpedo sun gun and takes up its lino line ot of progress by machinery chinery ina contain ed ell in its body I 1 there here ire many forma forms of these like the hovell and the NN aitel eid for example ind some ex results have bein beta obtain fd td va alth ith both the NN hite whitehead head I 1 h die dig charred charged fron fro n the tube by steam or powder poder and just as it loaves the ale a lock automatically opened re rt ra k J C 41 02 I 1 1 12 4 10 1 01 0 11 4 11 4 fa to mm 4 14 efy P v t I 1 X b 1 TUB TIM JUNIOR OF THE MAINE 1 engineer proctor 2 engineer french 3 gherardi 4 Wol hams 5 dr richards 6 ward 7 engineer mansfield 8 ramsey 10 butler 11 NA atson leases lemes the compressed air carried in a flask and sew in motion the mi chenery three things roust must be done by it it must go through the water at a high speed preserving its linear direction it must float at a constant depth and on striking it must explode the ingenuity and simplicity of 0 the mechanism which effects these three things are reilly marvelous the howell a ell torpedo Is based upon the well known principle ot of the gyro scope its speed and andi i surety of dirce V 2 0 d g W ep eggl ar I 1 f I 1 agya gya Y I 1 rv 71 W P Z I 1 I 1 e f axt V Z UI CJ n nr r ot abo leat IV clatt I 1 OZIA ecart E r cheit begs edmi THE MAINE LOOKS frona A TAKEN THE DAY AFTER TIM i about thirty were wound lion on has stoven many a ro ous kev nv an impossible story ro disaster one yarn told I 1 IV A 0 how a gunners mite mate had led ea as lu iii thought thou ht unjustly age du troyed the ship in e lost his own life but illing the object of his hi ha h A leer ho had bad left the ship hort time before the com the crime th real y e that a fuddled gunner gunners s ome error made his way aay agazine with an exposed ati 9 die Is into the pow pov coal t s p t f the period and thus blew A t r award ward 1 the n a destruction inglesh sen bertice ice there hae haie t ber of kotabe aises ot of ext C 01 le mainly in action ono one 1 in time cf of peace aas the of the frigate amphion I 1 commanding oft off england here too a gun appear appears as the god in the r apocryphal or not it IB is this day that the telman went vent nith a lightel lamp agazine to steal powder had i t ready ir aitel sev se pd d people we e de destroyed troyed prominent and free far of he e town who were dining w tion tu u among mong other crimes laid dantreal Man treAL i to irish sympathizer sympathizers by patsa und and people was vlas the Ms of the british gunboat the e 11 aalta of magellan URE yo off punta arenas about bill of n april 26 1881 the abu harges as of shore oon soon after to pay laws 61 all I 1 and about ten a m explosions were heard b 1 1 lense use cloud of emoke smoke was 1 esl over tiie tae ship in the per the morning projectiles smashes asses of human beings tte ge and of general wreck vered flying through the it 10 ater for a quarter of a atlas CIA his rayel I 1 ar barous ami ed however how ever its practical abandonment for many years the confederate torpedo torpedoes submarine boats had been generally emp employed loed in all experiments up to the beginning of the civil war and it was really not until 1863 that movable or fixed isolated torpedoes were brought into general use the confederate torpedoes were usually made of copper and filled ft ith powder varying in weights according to circumstances of emp employment loment from fiat to one hundred and fifty lounds these were carried on spars spare attached to ships or boats ft aare ere anchored on the bottom or sent drifting singly or in pairs connected b long lines down tide streams the fuses ere generally of 0 the percussion tipe and fulminate of rac mercury entered largely into their composition the housatonic nas destroyed des troed by a submarine boat but the albemarle wai blown up by cushing with a torpe to carided can led on the end of 0 a spar ibis was as made of a stout cylindrical indr ical copper cupper case plied with powder and fitted ath ith a hollo hollow tube which carried at its fc a fulminate cap A small sized grape shot secured mth ft ath a pin was held at the top and by releasing this at the eventful moment gushing cushing destroyed the albemarle and lit ahli 4 own boat at the same time ind then aado made one of the most daring ind romantic escapes in the annals of naval history many improved systems were emp employed loed and much ingenuity vas ilip laed the most inventive Inen tive of nil all experimenters being a coc confederate federate officer who freyl to the var ar had been a well ill known dancing master handling llanil ting torpedoes Torp do for a reason season towing torpedoes were in grea favor thea were handled from the ship and by cert certain sixt dextrous shifting shillings ot of the connecting lines were carried on off ech erch quarter at safe argle and made to dive at the de tion are given by the th functioning of an inner wheel which la Is relatively hely very heavy on the periphery and revolves weh such velocity elo elty and in such a constant plane that high speed ant an I 1 greit straightness of trajectory arc are secured there are many other forms but these two to are employ d in our service and the whitehead Is aed b nearly all the navies nailes of 0 the world suba trine mines the term submarine mine is 1 up piled plied to def defensive enslo mines or to those which would be used to obstruct the channels ch annele of a river or estuar or the approaches to a it fortified or un protect PI 1 seaport col simiel colt the in aitor antor of th thi american rei oher first raon mon tried in ell the practicability of III up 1 by submarine mines I 1 n 1 1 h electric electricity it in be he blew I 1 the oil gunboat boxer ind in 1813 I 1 s a bris brig in tit the potomac r alle abl eel e el hiis under va a aing I 1 ing at tl if fc rate of five pie miles an ur mun mana forma forms of mines acre here id d abrea I 1 an I 1 the were success i ly empio d ag us in the chil v ir I epry pry estem steni of co chiist abt defense n ans iosif nith their distribution i I 1 wt live an ani I 1 vell well known it harl harlor or f atit ohp horld Is at thie this day ti so 0 mapped it that the planting of th cheso ege mine 11 tv lt ic done on a plan which alch promise tl grI test utility Y somo some of ahse aro are constant depth mines that lb au such as will float kinavs at a certain depth below the surface no matter hat ma ina be the of the tide some are fitted to explode on contact and most are so arranged that they rna mai be exploded at will w III by observers pro stationed at points of refuse refuge in tit bomb proof ind lookout stations tona ions ashore la Is the harbor of havana so guarded an ant I 1 so protected and could the balne hale hae been close to one 0 of these submerged volcanoes iolean oes operated so casal b the simple twist of a hoa hos tile bind ashore 1 75 A A THE SECTION ar THE M MAINE FROW A PHOTO TAKEN THE RAY PAY AFTER THE DISASTER |