LESSONS OF THE WAR.
BATTLESHIP
LATEST- AMERICAN
SHOWS THEIR RESULT.
The designs for the new American bnttleship Maine, the first that have been prepared since the war, show the influence of the lessons of Santiago. The new ship is almost completely covered with Sin and 12in steel armour. She will carry 500 tons more platinj? than British battleships of one-fifth' greater sire. She also carries two mdre Ginch guns than the new British Formidable*. Guns and armour won the day at Santiago. The new ship will have no wood on board that is not fireproofed. She will have engines of 16,000 horse povvr as against the Formidable's 15.000 horso. power, and will steam eighteen or nineteen knots. Electricity, in accordance with Chief Engineer Melville's recommendations, will be enormously used on board her to hoist ammunition and move guns She will have next to no unarmoured superstructure, and the fire mains are all below the armoured deck, fitted at intervals with risers.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 1 April 1899, Page 5 (Supplement)
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