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BRITAIN'S WAR-SHIPs.
4 LIST OF OLD ENoLAND'S FLOAT
ING PEAcE-MAKERS.
Astonishing Weight Of Belligerent Metal
Brief Description Of Iron-Armored
Monsters - Central battery
F1eet-COast Defense.
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Look now at the monsters the admitted
sfectives OF these there are now the In
aexible-believed to be q match for any
hing afloat-of II, $50 tons displacement,
having wenty-four inches of iron armor, on
! solid backing Of twenty-four inches Of teak,
II S.010 horse power, and with four eighty
on guns in her two turrsts; vessel
whose ability to batter down Notifications
Alexandria's ruined batteries bear witness;
the Dreadnaught, which has just relieved
her in the Mediterranean, with four thirty
sight ton guns in her two turrets, and with
lighter armor of only fourteen inches; the
rhunderer, Neptune, Colossus, Edinburgh,
Agamemnon, Ajax and Monarch, all two
mIret ships Of varying types, the Thunderer
having two 3S ton and two 35 ton guns; the
others varying from four 43 ton breech
leaders ani two 6 inch guns to SS ton and IL
son guns; while the Monarch, known to
Portland, Me-, folks as having brought over
the body of George Peabody to that harbor,
aas four 25 ton guns In her two turrets, two
" ton guns and one 61S ton-all muzzl
leaders, and therefore not considered Of tn.
best kind, but also powerful at Alexandria.
Named after the famous British admirals
are the new barbette ships, the Anson, Ben
bow, Camperdown, Howe, Rodney AMI Col
ingwood, Of about 10000 tons each. The
first four are yet on the stocks The Ben
bow will carry two ITO ton breech leaders,
pretty little barkers. with a playful pro-
iectile of $500 pounds weight or more, cal.
culated to knock out even John l. Sullivan
himself-if within a range of nine miles.
The other admirals have four g ton guns
and smaller pets of six inches bore; while
the Temeraire, Imperieuss and Warspite-
smaller vessels Of the same class-are con-
tent with Is and IS ton cannon. Five turret
rams, one OF which is the New Hero, yet ON
the stocks, are also included in the list
Then the central battery fleet-fne YES
sels, all of which have been successful-must
be reckoned There are eleven of these ships,
from the Alexandra Of 9, 40 tons, with two
IS and ten Is ton cannon, and with II inches
,f armor as her maximum, (" the Orion Of
ks7O tons displacement, which, like the
Belleisle, its sister ship, yet contrives to
carry IL inches Of iron armor and four 25
ION guns. OF this class of ships the Swift
sure, Triumph, Audacious, Invincibls and
Iron Duke are almost alike, about 200 tons,
drawing 20 feet Of water, with eight inches
Of iron armor, and carrying each ten II ton
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the Nelson, on the Australian station, the
Northampton, flagship of the North Ameri-
can fleet, recently at Newport, and the
Shannon, have II and lS ton g. us
For coast defense there de five good
turret ships The Glatton, a ram, has nine
teen inches Of armor defending her turret.
which has 25 ton gun, and the Cyclops,
Gorgon, Hecate and Hydra Of two turrets
each, eight and ten inches Of iron armor,
and with is ton guns. The turreted ships
Magdola and Abysinia are in Bombay har-
Dor, and the Cerberus, already mentioned,
at Melbourne. Then there are eighteen un-
armored vessels, seven Of which are fast
cruisers, building in the royal dockyards, and
four first-class ironclads, are, by a recent
vote, to be added to the list These will
carry no ton guns and will be disignsd to
take the first rank