New floating target resembling hull of battleship for US Navy according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1905-1906 no. 4

An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau reporting that at New York, USA a floating target was made of the part below the waterline resembled the hull of a battleships. It resembles a big cabinet with a beam of 2 metres and a height of 10 metres. Internal were 12 compartments and a large number of discharging pipes and with at the front 12 pressure meters. The target seemed not to be use to study the effect of gunfire but what damage mines and torpedoes could cause.