The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . JSFew Hampshire 311 ing the central portion of the shipssides is the upper and lower casematearmor 6 thick at the top, increas-ing to 7 thick at the bottom. At theforward and after 12 turrets, a solidwall of athwartship armor 7 thickextends across the ship from the pro-tective to the main decks. The con-ning tower is protected by 9 armor,and a tube 3 in diameter leads fromthe base of the conning tower downto the protective deck. This tube isprotected by 6 armor. The thing which gives life to the
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . JSFew Hampshire 311 ing the central portion of the shipssides is the upper and lower casematearmor 6 thick at the top, increas-ing to 7 thick at the bottom. At theforward and after 12 turrets, a solidwall of athwartship armor 7 thickextends across the ship from the pro-tective to the main decks. The con-ning tower is protected by 9 armor,and a tube 3 in diameter leads fromthe base of the conning tower downto the protective deck. This tube isprotected by 6 armor. The thing which gives life to the auxiliary machinery. The boilers arelocated in six separate water-tightcompartments and the two boilers ineach compartment face each other,thus giving in each compartment anathwartship fire room. Each boilerhas four furnaces, so there are forty-eight fires to stoke when all the boil-ers are in operation. The total gratearea is eleven hundred square feetand the total heating surface forty-six thousand, seven hundred and fiftysquare feet. Forced draft giving apressure of about one inch of water. The New Hampshire at Portsmouth. great battleship, changing her froman inert and helpless mass of steelinto a responsive, smoothly-runningmachine, obedient to the slightesttouch of her master and capable ofutilizing her powerful fightingstrength under any conditions ofwind and sea, is the power movement of the ship andevery operation incidental to thehandling of her guns and equipmentis accomplished directly or indirectlyby steam power. Twelve large boilers of the watertube type are required to generatesufficient steam for the propelling and in the ash pits is employed and theproducts of combustion are carriedoff through three funnels, each 100feet high above the keel of the ship is propelled by twinscrews over seventeen feet in diam-eter, each of which is driven by afour-cylinder vertical triple expan-sion engine, giving a total horsepowerof 16,500 at about 120 revo
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