Identifier: scientific-american-1898-10-22 (find matches)
Title: Scientific American Volume 79 Number 17 (October 1898)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: san scientific slates feet fingers bicycle american pilot san francisco portion smallest independent sandy hook scientific american san marino pilot boats large number railway system pilot boat fingers representing
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£ to 17 inchesin the Alabama, while in the Canopus it rangesfrom 5 to 12 inches. The maximum thickness of the deckplating in the Alabama is 4 inches and in the Cano-pus 3 inches. The Alabama carries four 13-iuch60-ton guns and fourteen 6-inch 6-ton guns, againstfour 12-inch 46-ton guns and twelve 6-inch 7-tonguns for the Canopus. It is evident that theweights allotted to guns are considerably heavierin the Alabama. Unfortunately, the Alabamawill not get the benefit of the improved weapons whichare to be mounted on our latest battleships. Her gunsare of the older type, and the 13-inch 60-ton weaponhas less energy than will be possessed by our new pat-tern 12-inch gun. The respective speeds of the twoships are as we have said 16 knots for the Alabama and 18% knots for the Canopus. It is here, in re-spect of her comparatively low speed, that any fault
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Copyrighted 1898 by W. H. Kan. LAUNCH OF THE ILLINOIS, OCTOBEB 4, 1898, AT THE YABDS OF THE NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY. ing are gathered.- Four of the battery of fourteen 6-inch rapid-fire guns will be located on this deck, theports for two of these guns being located where theplating of the superstructure on the starboard side ofthe vessel is shown cut away. The other ten guns will belocated on the main deck immediately below the spardeck. Two of these will be placed forward, firingthrough ports on either bow, one of which is shown inthe engraving. Each of these gun positions, as well asthose of the four guns on the spar deck, will be pro-tected by six inches of reforged Harveyized steel. Onthe main deck amidships and between the 13-inch tur-rets there will be eight 6-inch rapid-fire guns, four oneach broadside. It will be noticed the ports for thesefour guns do not appear in the engraving, and thisbrings out a fact which will be of interest to those whoare not acquainted with

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