University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Che Battleship Wisconsin Another star at a fighting top, Another flag is set, The bitter salt on her virgin bow, Her anchor chains new wet, The fires burn deep in her mighty heart, The wind is off the lee- To-day she slips from the harbor fog, Hurrah ! She's on' to sea ! With Eastern steel and Western brawn- Name of a Northern land 3 Yankee brains in the builder's art And a Yankee in command g Yankee coal on the furnace bars, The Badger bronze at her crest - Off to settle a Yankee's wars In the East or South or West! Hull as white as Wisconsin snows, Steel-cased to the fighting line g Painted plates like a drift below, Masts like the autumn pine 3 Rugged and stern as the rock-buil Of an inland pe0ple's home. t hills She'll weather the worst of war-storm's ills As her prow, the yellow foam. She clears at last from the Golden Past the High Presidio, The deep-mouthed guns from the southern height Boom out and bid her go g The salt sun-wash that was far astern, Fades fast in the sunset red- Now, fair seaway to the Badger boat, With the nati0n's foes ahead ! -Charlar Termeyjaclcso Che Pride of the naw 11,21 01 Gate, Armored Coast Line Battleship Wisconsiii, built by the Union Iron W'0rks, San Francisco, Cal., christened by Miss Elizabeth Stephenson for the State of Wisconsiii and launched by Miss Lucile Gage, representing the State of California, on November 26, 1898. Fastest seagoing battleship in the United States Navy, making 17.68 knots an hour for the four-hour speed test at Santa Barbara channel, October 2, 1900. Speed required by government, 16 knots an hour. Pronounced by Irving M. Scott, the builder, to be the most perfect ship ever turned out by the Union Iron Works. Speed of sister ship Alabama, I7.0I3 knots an hour. ' , Length of Wisconsin, 368 feet, breadth, 72 feet, 25 inches, draft, 23 feet 6 inches, displacement, 11,500 tons g contract speed, 16 knots. Battery-4 thirteen-inch guns in turrets 5 I4 six-inch guns on main deck g 16 six- poundersg 4 one-pounders and one machine guns 5 auxiliaries on bridge and lighting tops. The complement of the NVisconsin is 555 men and officers. Her commander is Lieutenant Commander lVilson. -