. St. Nicholas [serial]. The Neiv-Vork is the most powerful unit of the United States Navy now in commission. She is 575 feet long, is of 27,000 tons displacement,and has a speed of 23 knots. Her beam is 05 feet, her draught 28, and she carries a crew of 57 (jfiicers and iioo men. Her armdment consistsof ten 14-inch guns and twenty-one 5-inch guns. She is a sister ship of the Texas. be fought on either broadside, while the two sideturrets obtained but a limited arc of fire. Insubsequent British ships the second turret for-ward was raised, giving the vessel an end-on fireof eight guns. The port
. St. Nicholas [serial]. The Neiv-Vork is the most powerful unit of the United States Navy now in commission. She is 575 feet long, is of 27,000 tons displacement,and has a speed of 23 knots. Her beam is 05 feet, her draught 28, and she carries a crew of 57 (jfiicers and iioo men. Her armdment consistsof ten 14-inch guns and twenty-one 5-inch guns. She is a sister ship of the Texas. be fought on either broadside, while the two sideturrets obtained but a limited arc of fire. Insubsequent British ships the second turret for-ward was raised, giving the vessel an end-on fireof eight guns. The port and starboard turretswere, however, retained in the same position. The naval designers of the United States solvedthe problem of turret disposition by placing all. Ihe original dreadnought, witli a main battery of ten 12-iiichguns. Showing how the fire of the second forward pair is maskedby the turret aliead.
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