Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — THE NEW YORK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEW YORK.

This Country Has the Fastest Var Vessel in the World. Chicago Inter-Ocean. This splendid example of an ,11around warship is an unusual coibination of great offensive and decisive power with extraordinary cal endurance. On her recent trial tip she made the fastest time on recoil, 21.1 knots per hour. Her length on the water line is 50 feet 61 inches; her breadth, mouldi, 64 feet 10 inches, and her m^i

draft 23 feet 3} inches. Her twii screw, vertical, triple expansion en gines furnish an aggregate of 16,50 t maximum indicated horse power. The main battery consists of six 8-inch and twelve rapid-firing 4-inoh guns; her second battery of eight 6-pounder and four 1-pounder rapid* fire guns and four Gatlings. There are six above-water torpedo tubes/ she has no sail power and carries Jiwo military masts with double fighting tops. Her armor is two to tea inches thick: — —- , I