ly a few breech-loading guns, four 6-pounders, four 1-pounders, oily feed water to steam boilers. This seems very words of explanation are necessary. The furnaces and two Colts. She is known as an unarmored steel simple as it reads, but it was not so easy to carry out of marine boilers of the… … Displacement, 1,664 tons, Speed, 17.5 knots. THE “BENNINGTON ” DISASTER. scoring them that it had become second nature; but carries a complement of eleven officers and 176 men. ters of one inch thick. They are corrugated dia- At the time of the accident, the “Bennington” was imperative orders and…
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