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THE MINNEAPOLIS. The Minneapolis a Her dimensions i-s

triple-screw protected cruiser, the fastest warship

13, 1894.

are

as follows



Length, 412 feet



20,862; speed, 23 knots; armament, main battery, one 8-inch breech loading rifle, 6 -pounder and four 1-pounder rapid fire guns and four Gatlings crew, 38 officers

armament and thickness of

protective

armor are

and commissioned December 22 feet 0^- inches displacement, 7,375 tons horse power, two 6-inch and eight 4-inch rapid fire guns; secondary battery, twelve In vessels of the type of the Minneapolis strength of and 656 men.

of her class in the world, built at a cost of $2,690,000,

breadth, 58 feet 2£ inches

sacrificed for speed.



draft,

Their principal purpose



1

is

the destruction of



the merchant marine of an enemy.

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