Identifier: railroadengineer61newy (find matches)
Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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5 ft. above the water. This struc-ture is covered by a water-tight deck, known as the maindeck of the ship.on which the cabins and living spacesare arranged. The space between the main and protec-tive deck is divided, as may be seen by reference to theprotective-deck plan, into many strong, water-tightspaces, most of which are not more than about 500 ft. ca-pacity. The spaces next to the ships side are principallycoal bunkers, and may, therefore, exclude largely anywater that should enter. The first line of defense isformed inside these coal bunkers by a complete girdle ofcotTerdams. which can be worked from the main deck.Tiicse it is intended to fill with water and cellulose ma-tenal. and as they are also minutely sub-divided, theeffects of damage by shot and consequent flooding maybe localized to a considerable extent. The guns of thesh p are to consist of four 20-centimeter Honlorio breech-loading guns on Vavasseur carriages, six 12-centimetre 559 THE RAILROAD AND (December, 1887.
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Vol. LXI. No. 12.) ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 560 guns, eight 6-pounder rapid firing, and eight or ten smallguns for boats and mitrailleuse purposes, four of whichare in the crows-nests at the top of the two masts of theship. We may remark in passing that the builders sawtheir way at an early period of the construction to suggestan addition to the weight of the large-sized guns, andthere will actually be on thesliip four 24-ceiitimcter gunsinstead of four 2o-CLntimeter. The vessfl was to carryfive torpedo tubes, two forward in the bow, one in eachbroadside, and one aft; all these tubes to be fi.xed. Tofulfill the speed condition, four boilers were necessary andtwo sets of triple-expansion engmes, capable of develop-ing in all 12,000 H. P. Now that the vessel has been completely tried, thepromises by the builders may be compared with the re-sults determined by the Commission of Spanish officersappointed by the Government of Spain 10 say whetherthe vessel fulfilled in all respects the conditi

The description of the torpedo boats is found on page 560.
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