. American engineer and railroad journal . n Philadelphia, Decem-ber 2, the launch being witnessed by a large and distin-guished company. The AVw iori is the second ship ofthis type undertaken for the Navy—the Maine being thefirst—and is the largest ship yet launched for the Navy. The new ship is 380 ft. 6 in. in length on the water-line,64. ft. beam, and will have, when completed, a displace-ment of 8,150 tons, and a mean draft of 33 ft, 3 in. She 32 THE RAILROAD AND [January, 1892. will be exceeded in displacement by the three battle-shipsnow under construction, and in length by cruisers Nos
. American engineer and railroad journal . n Philadelphia, Decem-ber 2, the launch being witnessed by a large and distin-guished company. The AVw iori is the second ship ofthis type undertaken for the Navy—the Maine being thefirst—and is the largest ship yet launched for the Navy. The new ship is 380 ft. 6 in. in length on the water-line,64. ft. beam, and will have, when completed, a displace-ment of 8,150 tons, and a mean draft of 33 ft, 3 in. She 32 THE RAILROAD AND [January, 1892. will be exceeded in displacement by the three battle-shipsnow under construction, and in length by cruisers Nos. 12and 13, but is a very powerful ship in size and is expected to reach a speed of 20 knots an hour. The main battery consists of six 8-in. breech-loadingrifles and twelve 4-in. rapid-fire guns ; the secondary bat-tery of 12 smaller rapid-fire guns, four 37-mm. ()revolving cannon, and four machine guns. The hull is protected by a vertical armor-belt over themachinery space, and by a steel protective deck from 2;2. THE NEW CRUISER MONTGOMERY, FOR THE UNITED STATES NAVY. to 6 in. thick, extending from stem to stern. Within thearmor-belt and above the protective deck a coffer-dam 2/ift. wide extends the whole length of the ship, filled withcellulose. The 8-in. guns will be carried in barbettes with , which will protect the carriages, platforms andloading positions ; over the guns will be shields 7 Ttie ammunition hoists and spaces below the heavygun-mounts will have cone-shaped armor 5 in. thick. The4-in. guns will have segmental shields of 4-in. plate, andthe armor of the conning-tower will be yyi in. thick. This ship has twin screws and four engmes, two on eachshaft, so arranged that the forward engines can be un-coupled and only the after engines used whencruising at slow speed. The engines are of thevertical, inverted cylinder, direct-acting, triple-ex-pansion type, the cylinders being 32 in., 46 in. and70 in. in diameter, with 42
Size: 2018px × 1238px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectrailroadengineering
