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Title: History of the manufacture of armor plate for the United States navy
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: American Iron and Steel Association, comp
Subjects: United States. Navy Armor-plate
Publisher: Philadelphia, American Iron and Steel Association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ion. As a result the naval powers of Europecontinue to buy armor from European manufacturers atunquestioned and much higher prices than the UnitedStates has paid American manufacturers for armor ofsuperior quality. Russia, being dependent upon foreign sources of supply,owing to the limited development of her metallurgicalindustry and the unwillingness of private capital in thatcountry to invest in such a hazardous undertaking as ar-mor manufacturing, established a government plant atKolpino, near St. Petersburg, as a measure of nationalsafety, for, in the event of war, Russia would, of course,be obliged to rely entirely on its own resources for armorand ordnance. The Kolpino works, it is said, havecost from ;8,000,000 to $10,000,000 and are still incom-plete. This is the only government armor plant in the 2. ST > O o Pu :33 Ji a ro re ^ 3 H ^ 00 cr Cv T) ^ O r r-l-5 ?d n S. n 3 ^ s a_ D <T n m g § o a ^ :^ tr 3 00 H ^ « w ? 00 S X ^ 00 ^ » 1^ ♦s ^ 3 ^ m O .o Z n H m a ?d !U
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ARMOR PLATE FOR THE NAVY. 16 world, and the Russian ordnance engineers concede thatit can never be operated as economically as private es-tablishments in America and Europe, but, as a homeresource, it is invaluable, and it is to be maintained bythe Russian Government regardless of cost, to be put inoperation whenever the exigencies of war and the neu-trality laws preclude the purchase of armor and ordnancefrom foreign countries. A large percentage of the armor produced at the Kol-pino establishment has failed to meet the ballistic stand-ard, and much of it has been discarded as useless. Rus-sia undertook to produce a large quantity of armor at itsown works for some of its vessels now building, but, aftermany failures, the Government was compelled to aban-don the work, the orders being withdrawn and contractsplaced with European and American manufacturers forthe armor, the Bethlehem Iron Company and the Carne-gie Steel Company each receiving a share of the workthus unsuccessfully attem

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