Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — A POWERFUL WAR SHIP. [ARTICLE]

A POWERFUL WAR SHIP.

The Keiv Uritish Iron-Clad Launched at the Penihrolce Dochyanl. The latest British iron-clad, the Ts i 1 e, just launched at Pembroke dockyard, is the.most powerful ship of war ever constructed in England, if notin all the.world. The only others comparable with it are the British ship Trafalgar, built from nearly the same plans, and tlm Italian I)oria, Tauria, ana Viorosihi, -and these are not superior to it, unless possibly in speed, a point ye! to be determined. The* Xile may i-e breetly described as a twin-screw steamer, 845 feet long and 73 broad' and of 27* feet draught. Her displacement is 11,910 tons, "and her indicated horse power 13,000. It is expected that she will sm-oh nineteen miles an hour, and her 990 toils of coal will take her 0,000 miles- at’ mure than half speed.' Her external steel armor is from 14 to 20 iiH-ht-s in thickness. Her offensive wcapons com;priselfCiuTGT-ton'-gnus -in-tur-, rets, eight 5-inch in the box battory, and six 3e-pounder and eight G-poundcr quickfiring gvtns.’ TThere will also be eight torpedo lubes, for each of which three W iiiteht ad torpedoes wiil be carried. She is divided into 120 watertight compartments; and .her pumps have a capacity for 8,000 tons an hour, She can -dis,barge, eimuUaueou.siy 5,743 pounds of shot, including four missi! *- of 1,230 pounds each. " Finally, her total cost will .be about $3,4X30,600—the most expensive ship ever built. It is :ti intereiling eifeumstnitcc Ihi.t'tbc lautuhijig of :t!ds lfiige -ggdulag ,nfachirie. iau*.lcfi-nut ■•tmAln-i wsipx. _jfd.it> o:i lit- way 3 in any; British yards:’ a st ite of- affairs not seen before by this generation. ; - ■