New Battleship Ohio Launched

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 23.

New Battleship Ohio Launched

The new battleship Ohio was launched at the shipyards of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, on May 18, President McKinley and the governor of Ohio being present at the launching. This vessel will be one of the three largest in the American navy. She is 388 feet long, 72 feet in breadth, and her displacement is 12,440 tons. Her battery consists of 4 twelve-inch breech-loading rifles, 16 six-inch rapid-fire guns, 6 three-inch rapid-fire guns, 8 six-pounder rapid-fire guns, 6 one-pounders, 2 two-pounders, and 2 Colts. Her equipment is designed to make her one of the most destructive war vessels afloat.