Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — MONARCH OF THE SEA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MONARCH OF THE SEA.

C. t 7 - Battleship Vermont Is Able to Whip Any Ship Afloat. The standardization trial of the battleship Vermont took place off Rockland over a measured mile. This was to test the screw revolutions at varying speeds, that Is, to find out how many revolutions of the screws per minute were required to cover a mile in a given time. Incased In Ice from stem to stern, the new battleship came into Boston harbor from her trial trip and dropped anchor off the navy yard. She looked like a huge specter as she came up through the narrows, for with the exception of the funnels there was no part of the vessel that wasn’t coated with ice and the bow and forward part of the battleship were burdened with tons of the frozen water that had been thrown up as the huge war vessel plowed through head seas at a 17.4-knot clip. But the trial board is satisfied that the Vermont is the queen of the American navy, for they say that she behaved beautifully through it all. She was required to make eighteen knots, but without forcing her she made 18.33

easily over the four-mlle course. The boat will soon be ready for active service in the North Atlantic fleet. Naval' Constructor Baxter who has had charge of the completion of the Vermont, said: “Here goes out a ship which demolishes nil records of the world in naval construction. Not even Great Britain, the leading country in shipbuilding, has ever sent one of its battleships to sea wltnout pre'lminary deep water trial. But 1 know enough about the condition of the vessel to say that she Is ready to whip any other battleship in the world, of course, giving her a little practice with her guns.”

BATTLESHIP VERMONT, PRIDE OF THE NAVY