. The great American book of biography . y battery of twelve rapid-firing guns, four Hotchkiss revolvingcannon, and four Catling guns. The Miantonomah is another double-turreted monitor. Her four ten-inch rifles have an effective range of thirteenmiles, and she has a powerful secondary battery. Her big guns can send a fivehundred-pound bolt of metal through twenty inches of armor, and she is herselfheavily armored. This is a singularly powerful battle-ship, and would probably GREAT ARMORED WAR SHIPS. 395 prove a match for any war-ship in the world. Several similar vessels are nowunder construc
. The great American book of biography . y battery of twelve rapid-firing guns, four Hotchkiss revolvingcannon, and four Catling guns. The Miantonomah is another double-turreted monitor. Her four ten-inch rifles have an effective range of thirteenmiles, and she has a powerful secondary battery. Her big guns can send a fivehundred-pound bolt of metal through twenty inches of armor, and she is herselfheavily armored. This is a singularly powerful battle-ship, and would probably GREAT ARMORED WAR SHIPS. 395 prove a match for any war-ship in the world. Several similar vessels are nowunder construction. The Maine is a heavily-armored cruiser, and while intended for sea-going, is really a battle-ship. It has eleven inches of armor and carries fourten-inch rifles, besides numerous smaller guns. The Texas is a similar Detroit, Montgomery, and Marblehead, not yet completed, aresmall, partially armored cruisers. The New York is a mighty armoredcruiser, believed to surpass any other ship ever built in the combination of ofien-. CHICAGO, U. S N., ONE OF THE NEW WHITE SQUADRON WAR SHIPS. sive and defensive power, coal endurance, and speed. She is 380 feet 6^^ incheslong; steams 20 knots per hour; can go 13,000 miles without coaling; hasfrom six to eight inches of armor, and carries six eight-inch and twelve four-inchrifles, and numerous smaller guns. The Raleigh and Cincinnati are protected cruisers of medium are several other cruisers, not yet named, especially designed as com-merce-destroyers, having great speed, and being made to look as much likemerchant-ships as possible. Other gunboats and battle-ships are also beingbuilt; one practice cruiser, intended for a school-ship, and a harbor-defense 396 GIANTS OF THE NA VY. ram, carryingr no guns, but provided with a particularly ugly beak at the , the new navy, built or building, down to the present date comprisesthirteen armored battle-ships, seventeen unarmored but protected cruisers,and six g
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