History of the manufacture of armor plate for the United States navy . 1,264 tons, withthe proviso that this amount might be increased by 300tons at the option of the Russian Marine. The order wasso increased, and the total amount furnished at the lowprice was 1,561 tons. It was, as has been said, armor ofcomparatively simple shape, much less difficult to manu-facture than the average armor for our own ships, andonly part of it was to be Harveyized. It was deliveredpromptly at the date fixed by the contract, and met suc-cessfully the severe requirements imposed by the Rus-sian specifications.
History of the manufacture of armor plate for the United States navy . 1,264 tons, withthe proviso that this amount might be increased by 300tons at the option of the Russian Marine. The order wasso increased, and the total amount furnished at the lowprice was 1,561 tons. It was, as has been said, armor ofcomparatively simple shape, much less difficult to manu-facture than the average armor for our own ships, andonly part of it was to be Harveyized. It was deliveredpromptly at the date fixed by the contract, and met suc-cessfully the severe requirements imposed by the Rus-sian specifications. The Russian Government was so wellpleased with these plates, and generally with the mannerin which the contract was executed, that subsequently, inDecember, 1895, it made a contract with the BethlehemCompany for about 1,100 tons and with the CarnegieCompany for about 1,000 tons of hard-faced, nickel-steel 9 C ^ o o Ok K) S 3 * n Cp =^ X P^ s ?o w C 2 t-H T) w ^ :^ 3 00 ^^ -1> 0 0 n re > C/D r r/1 t—1 ? 00 C/3 ,. C^ n ^^ T) r> r§. H 3-:^ m 2w jr Co. ARMOR PLATE FOR THE NAVY. 20 armor at average prices of |527 and |530 per ton respect-ively. These prices are still about the average marketprices of the world for armor plates of the same quality. KRUPPS NEW PROCESS ARMOR. The Act of May 4, 1898, authorized the construction ofthree battle-ships, subsequently named the Blaine, Ohio, andMissouri, requiring on the revised plans about 2,730 tonsof armor each, and four harbor-defense monitors, Arkan-sas, Florida, Connectiad, and Wyoming, requiring about 538tons of armor each, at the same price limit of $400 perton, as stipulated for the Alabama, Illinois, and advertisements for this armor were withheld beyondthe usual time, as the Navy Department learned thatHerr Krupp had perfected a new process for the fabri-cation of armor at his ordnance works at Essen, Ger-many, that gave a product much superior to Harveyizedarmor and revolutionized the ballistic standa
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