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Identifier: americafromdisco00boyd (find matches)
Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he navalvessels as follows: (i) Armored vessels. (2) Single turret monitors (iron). (3) Unarmored steel vessels. (4) Iron and wooden steam vessels. (5) Vessels unfit for service (of whatever material). Three of the four ships, ordered and contracted for in 1882,were of the type of unarmored but protected steel cruisers.They were named the Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and Dolphin.The keels of all were laid in 1883. The Chicago was 325 feet long, 48 feet across the beam, witha draft of 19 feet, and a displacement of 4500 tons. She had atwin screw, compound-overhead beam, 5084 horse-power, mainand secondary batteries of guns, and steamed 15.33 l^i^ots anhour. The Boston was 270 feet long, 42 feet breadth of beam, 17 feetdraft, 3189 tons displacement, 4030 horse-power, tvvin-scre-wed,15.6 knots velocity per hour, and had main and secondary bat-teries of powerful guns. The Atlanta was 270 feet long, 42 feet breadth of beam, 17feet draft, and in all other respects the counterpart of the Boston,
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.nhift«i« ■ rrV-jj. .^j 308 OUR PLAN OF GOVERNMENT. The Dolphin was a swift dispatch boat, protected and heavilyarmed, 240 feet long, 32 feet across the beam, 14 feet draft,1485 tons displacement, with a single screw, and a velocity of15.5 knots per hour. The construction of these vessels proved to be a commitmentto the policy of a wqw navy. When the Cleveland administra-tion came into power in 1884, the policy seemed to be threat-ened for a time by his Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, whotook exception to American designs and methods, and sentabroad for models. But after becoming satisfied that Americandesigns and engineers were the equal, if not the superior, of theEnglish, he entered heartily into the ship-building policies ofhis predecessors, Hunt and Chandler. This policy was actively continued by Secretary of NavyTracy under the Harrison administration. New types werefound and introduced, or old ones remoulded as their imperfec-tions appeared. Greater speed and coal capacity

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