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Maria Teresa Floated

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
September
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Santiago, Sept. 27.- The Spanish eruiser Infanta Maria Teresa has been raised by Lieutenant Hobson. She was towed, in the face of a coming storm, to Guantanamo harbor, where she was welcomed with the blowing of whlstles and general rejoicing. The Infanta Maria Teresa was built by Slr Charles Palmer's Anglo-Spanish company at Bilbao, Spain. Her length is 340 feet; beam, 35 feet 2 inches; mean draft 21 feet 6 inches; displacement, 7,000 tons. When in fighting trim the Teresa had two 11-inch breechloadins guns, one forward and the pther aft, mounted in the barbettee of 10-inch armor, covcred with a round hood; ten 5.5-inch rapid-fire guns arranged in broadside, tiut so that the forward and after two could be flred ahead and astern; two 2.75-inch rapid fire rs, ten of the smaller callber rapld-flre and eight machine guns. She is fitted with eight torpedo tubes, only one of which are submerged. The coal bunkers of the Teresa are so situated as to afford additional protection to the vitáis of the ship,' and carry 1,050 tons, sufflcient to enable the ship to steam 9,700 miles.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News