Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the U S navy station Si atlon salt lako lake city in a splendid article argele in a recent lamo issue ot of tho maenz magazine lle section or of lie he icv york times mr air ilan biamon nr V baldwin badwin establishes reestablishes re the balc ic sir sh p as the queen ot of the ibe he bulwark ot of am cr cas sa aud anil sets rot forth th her ber ani I 1 mitat citations ions it is tro too bad that this artcle conrich be bp broadcast all over ilie he country in order that the amor A macii lein le in people everywhere might inight lia have e he vast amount of it contains mr baldwin is a staff biliter allter on the times who i iz discs cs lit in naval and military articles art cles there is probably no americ american n penman today who has such a firsthand knowledge ot of the navy or who writes so very interestingly on the subject mr air baldwin chia charac acael teres t b battle ship as a mobile fort a seagoing point da ppul upon which 6 tit tha 0 agh Ight ter er forces may maneuver and operate to the common end tor for all control of the sea in deser describing h the armor and protective devices of the modern battleship he says fays the great weight ot of armor a everywhere efrom trl to 15 tons thins ot of it throughout tile the ship shin gray soil d curving slabs the burrets alth their long ions reaching suns guns gaping toward the tar far horizons the control stations at mast heads are lightly armored against machne machine gun strafing and light bombs anti and splinters sp splinter lInler shields protect the anth al I 1 aircraft gunners on the newer ships and convard beneath the brid bridge ge alt aft ot of b lie 0 turrets is a vm ell optical squat quat cylinder ot of steel the beav est armor on the ship the conning tower pierced by eye slits slit irom froin which the capt canta n and his associates at battle stations observe the course of 0 action armor Is but one and perhaps the less import anit talt form ot of ship protection protect i on POT for all designers know that the best armor can lessen but cannot prevent damage its purpose is to keep a phiip a mobile fighting unit despite damage to ls ali s end a modern battle ship Is built like a honeycomb steel bulkheads some of them a armored didde and subdivide tile tho sieps Int elloy a triple steel skin protects against the bombs dropped alongside or against tile the mine and everywhere in the warren ot of compartments part ments below decks are watertight doors and hatches with rub rubber gaskets which fa ft snugly agai V ing ast t tho the polished knife edges doors ant aim it hatches neatly labeled closed in artion action there are guns everywhere on these great of them mr air baldwin says Seem seeming ng gigantic aud ponderous but controlled delicately and precisely preci soly by some ol of the anast complicated electro me ch cli anical instruments known to man the great autres turro s 9 fag lightly on ball bearing roller paths the tha three or five inch sky guns are arc able to 40 pump out twenty high ex ri love shells ft a minute as high as planes can call fly tile the lighter anti air cratt craft guns are easily and pointed by the touch of a finger afler descry tig ng the operating of the machinery and devices down in the ithe bowels of the great ships anti and paying a tribute to the men who handle am all of this mr baldwin says this is the heart ol of the battleship tle ship where ahel 40 all the power that keeps hr her a civill living fighting ard moving amov ng thing is generated power that is frightening on the newer ships caged steam imprisoned at terri terrific fc pressure behind bahi nd high iten elio eilo steel steam so super heated that a jet of it will burn brough flesh end and bone steam so lot hot tit that a jet ot of it cannot be seen so tearfully hot that a broom placed near a small asanall leak in a atea steam in ppe p pe flanga or bolit io lit will flash into flame battleships can be sunk says mr air ba balda edw 1 n how eily easily only the next nest war will tell but the modern ship of the line with its enormous we or armor and its watertight subdivisions is the most mearly unsinkable ship that man has yet designed desi g ned because she can take it and still remain afloat because in ill her huge hull is stored enough black oil to enable lie her r to cruise half way around the world without refueling because she can hit harder CF more accurately and more mor e continuously than any other weapon cin oja laud land or sea because she is s believed to be the only type that can overcome any other type and the only type that can meet successfully ell enemy emy ships of the line the a Is still in the majority i of 0 naval opinion the queen of tile the sea th the e backbone ot of the fleet the most important unit of any greant drw navy in arriving at this conclusion the ter maintains that this opinion is not the result of 0 dogmatic and reactionary mental menta processes nor of expel experiments alone for ship of the line Is the product of evolution evo luton of trial by lire fire and water waiter of trial by storm and war mr baldwin baldal n discusses the controversial trO trover versal sial subject of ar airplane Plane versus verbus battleship tu ln the following followay terms it has been shown definitely that modern planes even when flying at considerable conadera ble height j aided by modern bomb sights and ana manned mand by well trained aviators av lafors can hit battle battleships even though the ships steam at high speeds and change course frequently but t has not been shown that the hits can sink battleships or put them out of action although it Is frequently que antly conceded that battleships can be sunk by planes it if enough ets can call be made whether or not hits bits carl can be made in the heat ol of action with willi antiaircraft anti aircraft guns laying 1 down a high e ve barrage around the attacking attaching planes and defend defending ng planes swooping down aown to disturb the bombers aim Is another queston quast on but the admiralties admiral ties of the world believe that their tests have shown that it takes more than one or two hits to sink a modern cap tal ital ship iship |