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Identifier: railroadengineer65newy (find matches)
Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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displacement, 9,900 tons. The ship is constructed of steel throughout, and is protected by a water-line belt of armor 6 ft. 10 in width, extending the whole length of the hull, and varying in thickness from The magazines for ammunition are in three groups ar-ranged for convenient supply of the guns. For ramming purposes the ship carries a heavy steelspur forward, which forms part of the framing of the vessel. The armament consists of two 32-cm. (12.6-in.) Honto-ria guns mounted, one forward and the other aft, in two barbette turrets ; two 28-cm. (ii-in.) Hontoria guns placed almost amidship, one on each side ; one 16-cm. (6.29-in.)Hontoria gun placed well forward ; twelve 12-cm. (4.72-in.)Hontoria guns placed six on each side in batteries. The secondary battery consists of a number of rapid-fire and revolving guns carried on deck and in the double tops of the military masts. There are also seven torpedo tubes carried on the lower deck. The barbette turrets in which the 32-cm. guns are placed
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ARMORED CRUISER PELAYO, FOR THE SPANISH NAVY. Signed - Illegible. (Illustration taken from London Engineering) 17.7 in. in the center to 11.8 in. at the ends. Above this belt the protection consists of a steel deck placed at the level of the top of the plates. The ship has a double bottom divided into 98 watertight cells, while the space between the bottom and the armored deck is separated into compartments by 16 transverse bulkheads and by several longitudinal bulkheads,making no fewer than 145 compartments. All of these divisions, including those in the double bottom, can be emptied by means of a collecting channel 12 in. in diameter running from end to end ot the ship, and connecting with two large pumps. There are other pumps also which can be employed in addition for draining any of the compartments. The coal-bunkers are so arranged as to give additional protection to the engine and boilers. The quarters for the officers and crew are ample, andare arranged on the upper decks above the armored decks. are protected by steel plates 13.8 in; thick, an

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