Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — The Capitan Pratt. [ARTICLE]

The Capitan Pratt.

Chili’s most powerful war vessel has a name not at all suggestive of its formidable size and capabilities. It might not unfitly have been called the Terror or the Thunderer, and it Is not a little remarkable that so ardent, not to say flamboyant, a people as the Chilians were content with so prosaic a title as plain Captain Pratt. For actual business the Pratt has the following qualifications: It is 328 feet long; beam over all, 60 feet 7 inches; depth, 34 feet 9 inches. It will mount in its main battery four guns of 9.46 inches caliber, and it has also four guns of 4.72 inches, six rapid fire guns of 1.97 inches, and four rapid fire guns (two Nordenfelt and two Hotchkiss) of 0.78 inches caliber. It has six torpedo tubes of the Canet system. The Capitan Pratt is, in short, a fast and formidable armorclad vessel, with powerful engines of the latest and most improved description, and a guaranteed speed of eight* een knots an hour.