The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-19
THE WORLDS FAST WAR SHIPS.
The Cruisers of England, France,
Germany, Russia Spain, Austria,
Italy, Brazil, Chill, China and Japan

An interesting and valuable collection Of
statistics has just been laid before Congress,
comprising the principal war vessels of all
nayies, classified according to speed. In
these days there is no place in such lists for
vessels that cannot go 10 knots, while scores
achieve speed much greater,
England has four armored and half dozen
unarmored cruisers that make Is knots. Her
armored 16-knot vessels include the Imperi-
euse and Warspite Of 400 tons each, the Col
lingwood of $500, the Rodney of 300, the
Camperdown, Benhow, Arson and Howe of
10000 each. She has building the Victora
and Sans Pareil Of 10,470 tons each, and the
Trafalgar and Nile of Ii $40. Her six lunar
mored cruisers going II knots include four of
the Leander class, $3.50 tons each, while four
more of the Blanche class, 1880 tons, are
building. Passing to unamormed vessels of
IL knots. England has eight of the Ar
cher class, Ito tons, on which our gunboats
OF the Yorktown class are modelled. She
has also the Surprise and Alacrity, 1,400 tons
four vessels of the Mersey class, 1850. and
the Polyphemus, 2,640. OF British 18-knot
vessels, the most remarkable are the armored
Orlando. ,Undaunted, Australia, Narcissus,
Galatea, lmmortalite, and Aurora, of 5000
tons each, all but the two latter already built
The same high speed is ascribed to the we'll
known unarmored vessels, Iris and Mercury.
$3.50 tons, and to four small craft Of the
Grasshopper class, 525 TONS Great Britons
armored cruisers Melpomeno, Magicienne,
and Marathon, 1850 tons, and the Barham
and Bellona, 800. OF 20-knot vessels, she
has building the Medea and Medusa, $500
tons: the Vulcan, 6,e20, and the Blake and
Blenheim, 5000, besides seven small vessels
of 1856 tons.
France has no fewer than four armored and
thirteen unarm0red vessels of Is knots. She
has of 16 knots the armored Courbet built
and the powerful Hoche, Magenta, and Nep-
tune TO- 581 tons each, now building. The nm
armored Touryille and Duquesne are also 16
knot cruisers. OF II knots the most import
ant vessel, is the Siax, 4, 480 tons, while there
are four more unarmored cruisers Of the
Faucon class, about 1872 tons. In the 49,
knot array we find the two most powerful
Marceau of TO- 81 tons and Brennus of II, 600
Then there Is the swift unarmored Milan of
$50 tons, besides eight torpedo boats of the
Bombe class, 32l tons. France OF 19-knot
unarmored vessels has the Forbin, 1,S4S tons
already built, and five others 81 thel same
ton the Jean Bart, Alger, and lsly OF 4,162
tons, the Cecille of 5,766 and the Tage OF
Z 1915 She claims 20 knots for rthe armored
vessel Dupuy de LONE, 6,297 tons, and also
for the unarmored Dav0ust and Suchet, 3,Oz7
tons. all now building.
Italy has two big armor clads, the Duilio
and Dandolo, Of 10 knots, and half dozen
unarmored cruisers. She has three powerful
armored vessels, the Andrea DORA, Rug
griero di LAURA, and francesca Morisini, Of
10,045 tons each, besides two unarmored
cruisers, all going 16 knots. OF her three IL
knot vessels the most important is the nm
armored Giovanni Bausan, 3,06S tons. But
it is in her 1S-knot vessels that Italy is in
comparable, since these include the powerful
arm0r clads Italia, 1888 tons, and Lepanto,