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September 'J1, 190::.
New Cruiser Des Moines
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weight fpf the propelling machinery In the
new i-rulner tiy more than one-half. To
Kiv the cruiser n bunker capacity for 700
tons of coal, an amount Ruftlr lcnt to carry
It three tlmin ar roMw the Atlantic ocean
without ri'icialini;. Kivln? a BtcamlnR radius
of about IO.impO miles at ten knots or 2, COO
miles at full fipced, was merely an every
day problem In naval architecture. To
burn 1 his coal fan! enough It was necessary
to provide about linn square feet of grate
surface uncle r tho nix water tube boilers and
to carry nway the smoke In two stacks,
inch rising seventy feet above the grates.
Tho keel of the cruiser was laid at the
Fore Itiver yard two years ago, and plate
by plate the steed hull rose from the blocks
until it looked like a nearly completed ship.
A steel hull Is not diiT.ciilt to build in a
modern shipyard, when a hundred pneumatic
rivetters are at work and the dark corners
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protected cruiser
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I I s;ior.dence. I A railical departure
nilfl llllliM- llillll i in- l'
practice of the Navy department
when, on March 3, lV'.i, congress
authorised the building of six new cruisers
of the In s Moines d.i-H which should in
every respect be iip-to-dale and fit. fer "II
the requirements of the new American navy.
One r.triking feature, for example, was to
lie the wooden sheathing and tho copper
linl t mil which should cover the steel hulls,
For many years Chief Constructor llich
born stood almost alone In his advocacy
:f sheathing ships' bollonn; but per
sistent argument, combined with object
lessons from the reports cf ships in serv
ice, at last overcame the
It.
So the lulled States
lies Moines which wa
yarrl of the Fore Kiver company this after
noon Is typical of a new class of naval
vessels in Its construction and is equally
dlNlliietlve In many other respects. It is
about the size of Cincinnati and Halelgh.
but Improved and modernized. These
earlier vessels were dehlgned at a time
when the craze for speed at all costs
reached Its maximum, and to attain thi
spied -which could only be maintained for
a few weeks, after they were docked and
cleaned on account of their rapidly fouling
unsheathed bottoms in. my other qualities
were sacrificed.
In lies Melius it seined desirable to
have a type of cruiser which should be n
commerce protector Instead of a cominerci
destroyer, and which t-hould not In' too
large to follow the Mag into the islam!
harbors of the 1'acilic. For this service
a good sea beat whs desirable which hould
show an economy of fuel and a large steam
ing radius at a reasonab'c speed, ami be
cause such a vessel might spend much of
its time In southern harbors, where dock
l.ig facilities are not obtulnab'e. it wiib
deemed especially necessary to provide the
copper bottom to which barnacles anil ob
structive sea growth would not adhere.
With these requirements and the limit
cf cost 111 mind, the Navy department
spent some weeks drawing plans, and
then began to publish books about the now
cruiser. These books ccntalncd inanv
thousand specifications, telling In detail
how the hull and engines should lie built,
what sort of material houbl be used
sod enumerating everything down to a
paper of screws or a whetstone that the
builder would be expected to furnish.
Hundreds of dollar' worth of paper wove
required for the plans and hundreds of
dollars worth of print sheets were
required for the specifications and tlnal'v
after the various builders had made their
bids the contract for lies Moines was
given to the Fere Hlver Ship and Knglne
company the new yard In Huston harbor -in
December of the same yiar.
The cintracl called for a cruiser, fore
and aft rigged, with two masts and twi
smokestacks, with a straight bow and an
overhanging stern altoget her a boat that
without the guns wctild look not un'll
a passenger steamer. With a length en the
water line of 2:2 feet and an extreme
breadth of 41 feet. It fheiuhl have a draft
of lets than li feet, which would
let It Into many a barlocked hir
bor, which the deeper war vessel could
not jnter. The specifications gave th-n-w
rruWser twin screws and vertical triple
expansli n engines, capable cf forcing the
hull, which it was estimated would have a
full load displacement of 3. .".ml t- ns,
through the water at the rate of sixteen
and a half knots an hour, a task whi-h,
according to the accepted standard of
power, would require the combined effort a
of 4.700 horses. Although the curlier
Halelgh. for example, was designed f r a
speed of nineteen knots, It could scarcely
maintain a speed of fifteen knots, even
with an excessive consumption of coal,
Willi.' lies Moines is expected to maintain
its designated speed practically indefinitely
and without an extravagant use of fuel, and,
inasmuch as Halelgh rcqulrtd 10. (too-horse
power, it has been p ssihle to reduce th-
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COHIl THAT LOOSED THE CIU'ISEK
DES MOINES.
of the interior are tin-roughly illuminated
by portable electric lights, but when it
became necessary to eocr the lower half
if the hull with a sheathing of (ienrgla
pine planks which estmll conform mi per
fectly not only to the lines of the ship
but to every little irregularity ef the plat
ing that water cannot lind Its way between
the wood and the steel, the task was one
requiring much path nee and skill.
It Is the peculiar quality of copper tti.it It
"exfoliates," or scales off. under the action
of salt water, and consequently maintains
a permanently clean ton face, csince each
exfoliation relieves the ship's bottom of
Inn nicies and other growths which would
retard its speed. If the copper could be
attached directly to the steel plating the
shipbuilder's problem would be a simple
one, but If this were done on the bottom
of u ship the galvanic action of the sen
watir upon the copper and steel would
soon eat away the steel plates, leaving the
copper unsupported. It Is therefore neces
sary to use pine planking as a means of
Insulation and to take the utmost pains to
prevent the sea water from finding its wa?
from the copper shea I'll ng to th steel
plating.
Therefore the planks were fastened to
Di s Moines with the greatest cire, and
to perfect the insulation 2S.O0U bronze bolts
were used In fastening this sheathing to the
sleel hull. Further to guard against cor
r hIchi, the stem and stern eastings are of
brrnze, the rudder, which Is as high as the
.second story or a nouse, Is m:iele wltn a
bronze frame filled in with white pine and
eovi ri d with bronze plates, and the pro
pellor wheels, seacocks and all outboard
fittings are of noncorn sive metal.
There Is no armor on Des Moines
since it is not Intended for work in a
pitched battle of naval forces, but it has a
protective deck rising from the water line
like the cshell of a tuitle, with two-inch
nickel steel on the slopes which will turn
small mhot and safeguard to a considerable
extent the ship's machinery. The cruiser
is expected to stand off vessels of its own
ti -e with Its powerful armament of rapid-fire
guns, all designed for the use of smokclc
powder. Its main butt' ry will comprise
ten 5-inch breech-loading rapid-fire guns,
and Ha second battery Includes eight Im
pounder and two 1-p.under rapid-fire
guns, besides four Colt's automatic ma
chine guns, all of which will combine to
make it an extremely disagreeable cus
tomer at close range.
llelng unarmnred. Its greatest danger Is
from a fhot along the water line, which
might cause it to fill and sink. This con
tingency Is guarded against by watertight
compartments and a protective belt ef
corn-pith cellulncse. In addition there are
about a hundred watertight compart ments
in the ship, each of which has been cure
fully tested by pumping It full of water.
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