An item referred to the magazine The Army and Navy Journal reporting that the US navy was experimenting to improve the draught without the use of so-called artificial draught. For this purpose she intended to fit out the armoured cruiser USS Brooklyn with funnels with a height of 100’.(1) Chief engineer Melville calculated that such funnels with 1.016 square feet gird surface it became possible to develop around 11.500 ihp and with a shorter funnel just 7.000 ihp allowing with a displacement of 9.100 ton a speed of 17,2 respectively 15.35 miles.
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1. The 9.215 tons measuring USS Brooklyn (CA-3) was laid down at the shipyard of William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 2 August 1893, launched on 2 October tow years later, commissioned on 1 December 1896 and finally decommissioned on 9 March 1921 at the Mare Island Navy yard and sold on 20 December. Her speed was 20 knots.
