Show WILL CAST MONSTER INGOT immense lump of steel Is to be turned into new type of sixteen inch naval gun there has just been cast at the bethlehem steel works a monster ingot for the first ot of the 36 16 inch rifles that are to arm the great new battle cruisers of the united states navy under construction st nt at camden Ca luden so far as known writes a bethlehem m pa correspond ert of the philadelphia record the foremost ship of tills this class now afloat Is the I 1 british cruiser lion with engines of horse power her speed Is a bit better than 40 miles an hour and she carries 14 luch inch guns tha th american battle cruisers N hlll ill have engines ol of horse power and each will be armed with faour IG IC inch rifles which will shoot 20 miles from present indications indication there mill be als ix of them and bethlehem has the order tor for nil all the guns which will be the largest on any ships of tills this und kind in any navy the ingot required the contents ol 01 0 t three open health furnaces being 15 feet 7 inches long inches in diameter and weighing pounds it NN will ill take sei leeral eral weeks to cool such an enormous mass of metal after which it will nill be cut bored and hollow forged on the great armor plate press into a tube 80 feet long it Is proposed to finish these IC 10 inch guns in record time in the new gun shop ak which hach Is wide enough vo ro turn the alic tube around with room to spare special lathes and other machinery had to be constructed ted to handle these thebe guns ghose parts such us as jackets rings and yokes lire are already being for forged ged |