Our country and its resources; . small increase in displacement overthe last class laid down, but willdeliver an increased speed of aboutlive knots. Their chief characteris-tics will be: Displacement, 1,185tons; speed. 35 knots; battery, four4-inch guns, four triple torpedotubes, two anti-aircraft guns ; com-plement. !>>. They will attain theirrated speed on full designed dis-placement, and not on a very muchlesser displacement, which can onlybe attained by the stripping of manyessentials, as in a number of foreignboats of this class, for which veryhigh speeds are claimed. Of the coast d
Our country and its resources; . small increase in displacement overthe last class laid down, but willdeliver an increased speed of aboutlive knots. Their chief characteris-tics will be: Displacement, 1,185tons; speed. 35 knots; battery, four4-inch guns, four triple torpedotubes, two anti-aircraft guns ; com-plement. !>>. They will attain theirrated speed on full designed dis-placement, and not on a very muchlesser displacement, which can onlybe attained by the stripping of manyessentials, as in a number of foreignboats of this class, for which veryhigh speeds are claimed. Of the coast defense submarines,twenty-seven will be of the usualtype known as Nos. 7S to 104, in-clusive. The remaining three. , 106 and 107. will be a new typerepresenting ;i marked increase insize over the usual coast-defensesubmarine and a decrease in sizefrom the very large fleet of those three vessels will rep-resent different ideas in their de-tailed designs, and the Navy hopes,in their development, to arrive at a. 2GG OUR COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES size of vessel which will be sutii-ciently large to perforin nearly allthe duties required of a submarine,but at the same time will be suffi-ciently small to enable it to be builtquickly in large numbers. The hospital ship will be the firstbuilt especially for this purpose forthe Navy, those now in use beingconverted merchant vessels. Thedesign has been worked out by thetechnical bureaus of the departmentin constant consultation with theBureau of Medicine and Surgery,with the result that it will embodyevery feature of the most up-to-datehospital on shore. It will have ac-commodations for 500 patients. Itschief characteristics and dimensionsare: Displacement, tons;length. 460 feet; breadth. 60 feet10% inches; draft. 19 feet 6 inches;speed, 16 knots. As this vessel willbe, under the terms of the GenevaConvention, immune from capture orattack in time of war, it will not, inaccordance with the terms of thatconvention
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