| Show the hew cruiser brooklyn Brooki yn the brooklyn which wae launched yesterday as announced in lt even inise dispatches is regarded by experts a marvel in the an 0 batrine architecture she is classed a steel having four eight inch barbette turret her cost exclusive 0 armament is the principal dimension 0 the brooklyn length on the 11 waterline feet beam extreme beet draught normal 24 feet dix placement normal ton indicated horsepower horse power 1000 speed in kanoti per hour 21 total coal capacity 1753 tone coal carri ednormal ment WO tone the same of the yew york feet feet 2335 tone tone 1296 ton tons peed 21 knots the brooklyn will have twin screw there will be four edginee en ginee 0 the vertical triple expansion type two on each ehatt located in four separate compartments cheru are seven boil era placed in three compartment five 0 these are of alie double ended type and two of the ended the hull is of steel not sheathed wilh a double bottom and ft close watertight water tight sub division divi eion tr to bout twelve feet above the water alno THE 81 the hine baldery ill lio of eight 8 inch breech loading rifles of 85 calibers twelve 5 inch breech loading of the rapid fire type twelve 6 rapid fire gune four 1 rapid fire guns and conr machine cla the inch 8 guna will be mounted in four barbette lucrete lur rete clacel one forward and one aft on the center line and one on either ride of he in the turret on the canter lit e are to have ft train of choie in the eide can tire from right ahead to right astern or train an arc of each the center of alie side turrets will be distant from the center line of the vessel about twentythree twenty three feet the armor foin alie barbette diw protect the car platform and auriet machinery will be eight indies in thic knea for portion equivalent to the train of alio une of alio respective turret the re maininie main inic portioned port ione may be reduced to tour hinchee in under the lucrete ill bo placed three inch annor supporting eup porting dubu which will protect the ammunition lioi the armor of the turret will be Ss inched in thick nce the guns will be so mounted that they can be with ammunition and louled abeny position of the train she will have no hide armor protection to the hull will be given by a steel protective deck worked from etem to stern and supported by heavy beam the bottom eddes of thie deck amidships are to be 5 feet inches below the 24 foot water line the top of the dock riding to the water line at the center of the vessel by the arrangement of the battery it ie possible to concentrate eix 8 inch guna ahead aelean or abeam opposed to tour ahead aeterna or abeam ae iii the case of the new york moreover the axia of the gon fu alie forward torrents ie more than eight feet higher than that of the gun of alie bew york enabling them to b fought in almost any tier and giving them a great advantage in plunking fire |
