: MAVY’S NEW SHIPS EACH
.. EQUAL TO WHOLE WAR FLEET
The largest and moat powerful
» naval vessels in the world have just
i beam added to the American nav.y
with the completion of the new air
. eraft carriers Saratoga and Lexing
ton, writes J. Earle Miller in Popular
Mechanics Magazine. Built to tear
through the seas at thirty-three
knots, or about thirty-eight land
niles an hour, each can put eighty
. eight planes into the air and at the
same time carry on a respectable
fight against an .enemy on the sea or
in the air, for each is armed with
■ eight big eight-inch long-range guns
. and twelve five-inch anti-aircraft
t rifles.
Started at "the close of the war as
1 battle cruisers, the two ships were
< changed, after the Washington dis
.. armament conference, into aircraft
carriers of the same type. With their
superstructure condensed in tall
t towers on the starboard side and
t their smokestacks streamlined into a
•- single unit, they are the wierdest
ships in the navy. Bigger than bat
t tleships, but as fast as the lean, gray
t destroyers, they are entirely different
i from anything else afloat. Their
great speed requires enormous power,
four electric generators, each of 35,
i 200 kilowatts capacity, for each ship.
The power of each vessel is sufficient
to supply all the elecrical needs of a
< city ihe size of Boston. Steam tur
1 ain*:s,- .nfcjj by sixteen oil-fired burners,
1 turn the generators, which transmit
power to eight enormous electric mo
tors, each of 22,500 horsepower, con
nected in- pairs to four propellers.
1 With> 45,000 driviog each propeller,
. the combined output of 80,000 hors 3
pwwer makes,-_th*TO - the world’s fastest
big ships.
The navy’s entire fleet of sixpeler
trir driven battleships no wi nsom
mission—the New Mexiro, California,
Tennessee, Maryland, Colorado and
**est Virginia—has less power than
either of the tws carrier.
Because of the concentration of all.
the superstructure, gun turrets and
other above-deck equipment at the
extreme right-hand side of the ship,
the Lexington and Saratoga are bal
anced by placing their fhel oil, water
and gasoline tanks on the opposite
side. As each tank is emptied, it can
be filled with water to keep the ship
in trim.
The broad, lony landinv deck rs
large enough to drill a regiment on,
for the ships have .a length of 888
feet .and a beam of„ 10f> feet. At
either end the deck flares out over the
hull and also drops somewhat to in
crease speed when a plane takes off.
The deck is equipped with arresting
gear, to stop a plane on landing with
in a few feet, instead of allowing it
to run along for some distance, as is
done on a land field. When the land
ing deck is in use life nets are rigged
along the sides, so that members of
the deck force can, if necessary, leap
clear of the deck when a plane is
Sanding.
Two levels below the landing deck
the ship has hangers and machine
shops for handling the eighty-eight
planes, which include everything
from light and fast observation and
attack squadrons, to heafy bombers
and torpedo planes. Huge freight el
epators are built in, to lift the com
pletely assembled planes to the flying
deck, the elefators coming to a stop
flush with the deck, so they act as
part of the flying field when not in
use. A new type of catapult, mount
ed near the bow, can launch seaplanes,
while the flying deck is being used
by both land planes and amphibians.
Dan Sutherland
;fr(Pr«eftt Incumbent)
T Republican Candidate For
Delegate To Congress
PRIMARY ELECTION, APRIL 24, 1928.
f
J. H. McLEAN..
General
Merchandise
Either of the aircraft' carriers, ac
cording to napy officers,-islcapable of
; meeting any existing battle-fleet sin
1 gle-handed. With the eight inch guns
!n-their .turrets,, built fOr unusually
) long-range work, they can stand off
! enemy destroyers and cruisers, while
! their great speed will.enable'thmn to
maneuver out of Tange rtf the hf>avi< r
! battleships. The..twelve five-inert anti
aircraft guns are. designed to I up
the air clear of enemy planes whilt _
the carrier’s owr forcr is tukirlBvl h< i
air.
The flying deck is long and wide i
j enough to accommodate tht emi t j
' complement of set-up plains at one .
1 time, and still leave room for ships j
to take off. Not Jill of the eighty
I eight plants on each carrier will be
kept fully assembled at one time, but
othors can be set up as fast as need
I ed, to replace planes shot down or in
capacitated by mechanical troubles.
Some idea of the immense- size,
weight, power and speed of the Sara
toga and Lexington can be g-ained by |
comparing them with other naval ves
sels. The *2,(500-ton Maryland, Colo- ;
rado and West Virginia, biggest bat- i
tleships in the navy, are overshad
! owed by the aircraft carriers, with a
j displacement of more than 3T5,000
| tons. The difference in size is even
more marked, for the battleships
carry their enormous weight of heavy
armor.
In shaft horsepower, either of the !
new ships, with 180,000 horsepower
| delivered to her four propellers, is
, equal to more than five 35,000-horse
power battleships of the Maryland
class. Their enormous power will
drive them practically as fast as the
swiftest light cruisers in the fleet,
and only two knots slower than the
best of the first-line destroyer squad
rons, while they can outrun the older
; torpedo boats.
Complete with her complement of
planes, the Saratoga cost approxi
j mately 845,000,000 to build.
A man traveling in a train that
| had made several abrupt stops and
i sudden jerks, became a bit anxious.
There had been numerous accidents
on the line of late, so he had been
told, and there was cause for fear.
Calling the porter aside, he said:
“George, is this train safe?”
“Safe as any, sub.”
“Is there a block system on the
road ?”
i George’ sgri nextended from ear to
| ear.
j “Block system, suh ? Why, boss,
we has de greatest block system in de
world. Ten miles back we was blocked
! by a load of hay; six miles back we
i was blocked by a mule; just now we
■ was blocked by a cow, and I reckon
when we gets farther south we’ll be
blocked by an alligator. Block sys- ;
tern, suh ? Well, I’ll say it is:”— J
Country Gentleman.
_
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boy?
Modern Child (reflectively wiping I
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physiological age 6. I suppose you
| refer, however, to my chronological
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Teachers Association.
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have this day appointed H. C. Wal
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ministrator to sell all personal prop
erty at private sale found in the Mt.
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moneys due the deceased, and submit
the report to the aforesaid W. T.
Vanderpool not later than September
22nd, A. D. 1928.
Given under my hand and official
seal this 22nd day of March, A. D.
1928.
W. T. VANDERPOOL,
-TJ. S. Commissioner and ex
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