. The railroad and engineering journal . of celluloid is placedback of the armor-belt and also back of the coal bunkersand over the engines, as shown in fig. 3. The ship is lighted throughout by electricity, and haspowerful search-lights, one forward and one aft. She car-ries three masts, each having a military top containing aCatling gun. The vessel has a double bottom, and is di-vided into numerous compartments. In order to provide for good manoeuvring power, a pat-ent balanced rudder has been fitted, on the principle al-ready adopted in the Reina Regente and other war vessels. The armament
. The railroad and engineering journal . of celluloid is placedback of the armor-belt and also back of the coal bunkersand over the engines, as shown in fig. 3. The ship is lighted throughout by electricity, and haspowerful search-lights, one forward and one aft. She car-ries three masts, each having a military top containing aCatling gun. The vessel has a double bottom, and is di-vided into numerous compartments. In order to provide for good manoeuvring power, a pat-ent balanced rudder has been fitted, on the principle al-ready adopted in the Reina Regente and other war vessels. The armament consists of ten Armstrong rapid-fire guns mounted, as shown in fig. 2, on the main secondary battery includes fourteen 47-mm. Hotchkissguns and three Galling guns. There are also three tor-pedo tubes, one at the bow and one on each broadside. The engines, which are shown in the large engraving,are veitical, inverted triple-expansion engines, one to eachscrew, and are arranged so as to give a strong structure for Fig- 3. COAL BUNKER • YChromiSteelBelt u ^ J fe. COAL the minimum of weight, and at the same time to make allthe working parts easily accessible. The cylinders aresupported by steel columns bolted to a cast steel bedplate. The cylinders are 26^ in., 39 in. and 57 in. in di-ameter, with 27 in. stroke. They are all fitted with piston-valves, worked as shown in the engraving from eccentricsplaced on the main shaft, driving links. The air-pumpsare worked from the low-pressure crosshead. When run-ning at full speed tliese engines will make 230 revolutionsper minute. Steam is supplied by six locomotive boilers placed in twoseparate water-tight compartments forward of the boilers are of steel, and are 7 ft. in diameter and 18 , each having two fire-boxes. Forced draft is appliedon the closed stokehold system. There are four fans 60in. in diameter and intended to make 250 revolutions perminute. Each fan is driven by a direct-acting single
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