Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-03-30

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so marines The principal engineer,
ike Hobart Pasha, the Admiral in Chief,
are Englishmen.
France has So iron -clads, of which
seven are coast guard ships and Is float
ing batteries with total horse power of
SO,240 and COS GUNS. The exact number
of sailors is not known outside the Ma
rine Bureau.
The Austrian navy consists of ten IRON
ciads and sixteen other steamers. The
"Custozza," "Lissa," "Kaiser" and "Cz-
herog Albrecht," are amongst the strong
est, and they range from 800 to 1000
horsepower. They carry AZ guns in all.
The German navy contains eleven iron
clads and thirty one steamers. The total
tonnage is 83,342, the horsepower. TO-
430, with 478 guns in all. The most
powerful of the iron clads are the "Ksis-
er" and the deutschland" built in Eng.
land in 1874. They are each Of 5000
horse power, and carry nine guns.
The most powerful Russian iron-clad
is the "Peter the Great" launched in 1874
from the harbor of Kronstadt. Her frig.
ates are the "Sevastopol," eight guns; the
"Kniaz- Pojarskit', eight, and the "Duko
of Edinburg," two. The "NovgOrod"
and the "Admirsl Popoff," circular mont
tors, built chiefly for harbor defense, are
of eighteen inches thickness in arm0r.
with two guns each, and total indicated
horsepower of 1880, and total Of 5000
tonnage. There are between 500 and 900
officers in the fleet number very much
in excess to the proportion in nearly
every other navy in Europe. The circu-
lar monitors, powerful us they are for
coast defense, have been found almost
unmanageable in the open waters.
Spain not being at present particularly
interested in tho Eastern question, will
have no employment for her very con-
siderable feet. OF the other smaller
powers, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Bel
GUM and Portugal, they are in proper
ton to their population and importance
correspondingly provided with war YES
sels.-T'oledO Blade.