. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. ts Advantage. THE United States squadron wliicli sailed out of Mirs Bayon April 27th was not made up of ironclads orarmored battleships. They were the four protectedcrmsevs, Olympia, Baltimore, Boston, Ri\d Raleigh, and the twogunboats, Concord and Petrel. The Olympia, which was theflagship, Captain C. Y. Gridley commanding, carried ten rapid-fire 5-inch guns and four 8-inch guns mounted in barbette tur-rets, with armor of four inches in average thickness. This wasabout all the armor there was in the whole squ
. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. ts Advantage. THE United States squadron wliicli sailed out of Mirs Bayon April 27th was not made up of ironclads orarmored battleships. They were the four protectedcrmsevs, Olympia, Baltimore, Boston, Ri\d Raleigh, and the twogunboats, Concord and Petrel. The Olympia, which was theflagship, Captain C. Y. Gridley commanding, carried ten rapid-fire 5-inch guns and four 8-inch guns mounted in barbette tur-rets, with armor of four inches in average thickness. This wasabout all the armor there was in the whole squadron. In hersecondary battery were fourteen 6-pounders, seven 1-pounders,four Gatlings, and one field gun. The Baltimore, CaptainN. M. Dyer commanding, had four 8-inch and six 6-inch rifles,and four 6-pounders, with several smaller rapid-fire Boston, Captain Frank Wildes commanding, carried two8-inch and six 6-inch rifles, and tAvo 6-pounders, with othersmaller guns. The Ealeigh, Captain J. B. Coughlan com-manding, had one 6-inch and ten rapid-fire 5-inch guns and (548). 7\ E . & C 0 . FUE LiiHEKS .\ r OKD . C ONW .
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