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110-pounders and two :40-pounder breech-loading rifle
guns for chase.
12. Pallas—Main deck, four 9-ton 8-inch muzzle-load-
ing guns and two 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifle guns,
as chase guns, on rear chock carriages ; upper deck, two
40-pounder rifled breech-loading guns, as chase guns, on
common carriages.
13. Favorite—Upper deck, eight 6-ton 7-inch muzzle-
loading rifle guns and two 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifle
guns, revolving.
14. Enterprise—Upper deck, four 6-ton 7-inch guns.
15. Research—Main deck, four 6-ton 7-inch muzzle..
loading rifle guns.
16. Royal Oak—Main deck, four 9-ton 8-inch and 16
G-ton 7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns ; upper deck, four
6-ton 7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns, for chase.
17. Lord Clyde—Main deck, four 9-ton 8-inch and 16
G-ton 7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns ; upper deck, four
6-ton 7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns, for chase.

NOT IN COMMISSION, BUT RIGGED AND STORED, RIGGING
AND STORING, REPAIRING OR REFITTING, BY THE STEAX
FACTORIES AND RESERVES OF THE SEVERAL PORTS.
1. Scorpion, turret ship, repairing in dock, four 12-ton
9-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns.
2. Warrior, repairing and refitting —Main deck, four 9-
ton 8-inch and 22 6-ton 7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns ;
upper deck, six 6-ton 7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns,
four as chase, and two as side guns.
3. Agincourt—Main deck, four 12-ton 9-inch and 18 6-
ton 7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns; upper deck, four 6-
ton 7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns, for chase.
4. Minotaur—As given.

5. Northumberland—Main deck, four 12-ton 9-inch and
18 9-ton 8-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns ; upper deck,
four 9-ton 8-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns, for chase.
6. Valiant—Main deck, two 9-ton 8-inch and 12 6-ton
7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns ; upper deck, four 6-ton
7-inch guns, for chase.
7. Ocean—Main deck, four 9-ton 8-inch and 16 6-ton
7-inch muzzle-loading rifle guns ; upper deck, four 6-ton
7-inch guns, for chase.
8. Royal Alfred—As given.

9. Lord Warden—Main deck, 16 9-ton 8-inch muzzle-
load ng rifle guns; upper deck,
_four 6-ton 7-inch muzzle-
loading rifle guns, for chase.

10. Zealous—Main deck, 16 6-ton 7-inch muzzle-loading
rifle guns; upper deck, four 6-ton 7-inch guns, for chase.
11. Viper, double screw; upper deck, two 6-ton 7-inch
guns.

12. Vixen, double screw ; upper deck, two G-ton 7-inch
guns.

13. Waterwitch, hydraulic propulsion ; upper deck, two
s-ton 7-inch guns.

ORDERED TO BE BUILT AND BUILDING.
1. Monarch, turret ship ; four 22-ton gun; in two tur.
rets ; two 6-ton 7-inch guns, as revolving chase guns.
2. Hercules—Main deck, eight 18-ton guns and two 12-
ton 9-inch guns; upper deck, two 64-pounder revolving
chase guns.

3. Penelope, double screw.—Main deck, eight 12-ton 9.
inch guns and one 40-pounder breech-loading revolving
gun; upper deck, two 40-pounder breech-loading revolving
guns.

Our iron-clad fleet, therefore, consists of 16 ves-
sels now in commission, 14 vessels built and pre-
paring for commission, and three vessels building.
For the armament of this fleet we require 4 guns
of 22 tons weight each, 8 guns of 18 tons each,
59 of 12 tons each, 82 of 9 tons each, and 341 of
6 tons each, giving a grand total of 494 muzzle-
loading rifled guns, irrespective of 64-pounder
rifled muzzle-loaders and breech-loading shell guns,
apportioned as shell guns for service on the ships'
upper decks.
There is a sufficient work marked out here in the
supply of these guns to the navy to tax by its exe-
cution, within a reasonable time, all the available
energies of the Government establishment at Wool-
wich, the Armstrong establishment at Elswick, and
the Whitworth establishment at Manchester. It is
somewhat alarming, however, to be told just at this
precise juncture that the supply of guns to the
' Navy has been restricted by the War Department
to the Woolwich and Elswick establishments, and
that the 12-ton 9-inch gun—the armour-plate
piercing gun par excellence of the British Navy--
cannot be depended upon for endurance. The recent
bursting of specimens of this gun appears to con-
firm this opinion mostdecisively, and yet, if it really
prove correct, what a position shall we find our-
selves in at this moment ! We know for a certainty
that the 7-inch Whitworth gun, with hollow pro-
jectile of compressed steel, propelled by a 201 b.
powder charge, will inflict much more damage upon
an armour-plated target at short range than will
the Woolwich or Elswick 7-inch gun with a solid
steel projectile of similar weight propelled by a
powdercharge of 301 b., or one-third greater weight.
This important fact has been proved by actual and
carefully-conducted experiment, and must be duly
weighed at its actual value. The broad fact above
all others that most affects the public mind is the feel-
ing that the few ironclad ships England already pos-
sesses are virtually unarmed until the order of the
late Board of Admiralty, dated June 1, 1866, has
been fully carried into effect. There are other ques-
tions which must also be considered, and one of the
most important of all is the question, " Have we
not already gone too far in our worship of big
guns ?" If we can effect all we want against the
hull of an enemy's ironclad with a gun having a
9in. or 10in. diameter of bore, then that ought to
be the soundest of reasons against burdening our
ships with guns of 15in. or 20in. diameter. The
larger the gun built, the greater the difficulty in
turning it out of hand perfect. We hear daily of
our 9 and 13-inch guns bursting under proof ; we
know of 22-ton guns of 13 inches that are unreliable
for a single round with a full charge, and we are
aware that the turret ship of the future has the
22-ton 13-inch rifled gun fixed upon as its minimum
weight of gun; but turret ships will have to engage
iron-cased marine ports and port-protecting shore
batteries, and must, therefore, carry ordnance of
exceptional weight, and we can therefore afford here
to put the turret question aside with the remark
that, while we are finding the guns for our iron-
coated ships at present in existence, the turret and
broadside questions may be discussed with advan-__

tage, and also with a certainty that the freer and
the more impartial the discussion the sooner and
and more satisfactorily the argument will be con-
cluded, and both broadside and turret ships settle
down to their proper level in the iron-clad navy of
England.

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