MONSTER FIGHTING SHIPS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2848, 12 August 1916, Page 10

MONSTER FIGHTING SHIPS

FOR THE AMERICAN NAVY. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Washington, August 10. The designs for the new American battle-cruisers. aim at producing the fastest major'ships in the world. Their displacement will bo 32,000 tons, and the anticipated-speed is 35 knots. "CALLING THE LIMIT." _ llieuier's ■ Telegram.l (Rcc. August 11, J0.30 p.m.) ftew York, August_lQ. Commander Adgcr Moil'at, United States Naval Construction Expert, advocates the building of a mammoth super-Dreadnought of 60,000 tons, 995 feet in length, 105 feet beam, 36 knots, and carrying ten 18-incii guns. Ee says that such a ship would "call the limit," and would result in the scrapping of every other Dreadnought in tile world, and make the United States Navy foremost amongst the Great Powers.

L'Tiie proposed ships, which will cost more than 20,000,001) dollars each, are to have a speed of thirty-five knots, a displacement of 32,000 tons, jyid an ar.mauient of ten 14-inch or eight 16-inch guns. "They will be six knots faster ilian the fastest of their type in the British and German Navies,'' notes the Brooklyn "Eagle." The Springfield "Republican" describes them as "nearly 2U per cent, larger and 20 per cent, faster thau any first-class fighting craft known to have been projected up to the opening of the war." The "New York A\orld" says: "The Jloltke and the Soydlitz, the strongest and fastest of the German battle-cniisers, are twenty-nine-knot ships—one of 52,000 horsepower a|id the other of 63,000 horsepower. 'The Tiger, which is the most powerful of the British battle-cruisers, is a twenty-eight-knot ship of 87,000 horse-po'.ver. Tho American battlecruisers are to have 180,000 horsepower. They are to be six knots faster than the fastest German battle-cruiser and seven knots faster than the fastest British battle-cruiser, with heavier guns and a greater volume of gun-fire than cither their German or British rivals^]