New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-26
FOREIGN NAVAL NOTES.

II tina English Navy officers ara TO be believed the
recent manocuvres OF the nebflised heet were COM
plete failure, "The United Service Gazette re"
ferr,ng to the views Of several commanders, says:
4he manoeuvres have proved the most unsatisfactory
OF any that we have yet had, the two fleets saw
nothing of one another during the~war Sir George
Tryon considered that no had an impossible task to
perform and 40 contened himself with seeing that the
enemy did not take him In the rear and get up the
channel, q. AS II turns out while the steam tactics
and feet manoeuvrng have been most useful to the
officers and men, and the sesming has pointed ont the
decided fssco and We can only wish the Intelligence
Department better luck next time. And yet II Is
calculated that than 81 100000 was wasted on
this "hasco.'
A new system Of torpedo defence has been devised
by NJ: salmaic, Of the French Engineers. 1t is o
series Of nets made OF steel cable wire Oneth OF an
inch In diameter, and not only has 1t higl degree OF
resistance, but it possesses great hexibilty. The
whole apparatus for a large batte-shlp will weigh
about forty TONS The nets arranged that .lcy
can be run ont and extended by of compressed
air in about twenty seconds. They affixed to
booms. which work through small ports cut into the
waterght castings which fitted to the deck about
three and half feet above tho waterline They are
under the absolute control Of ono man. and when
down twenty-knOt ship easily maintain speed
OF ten Knots or more an hour.
Much Is expected Of the French cruisers Charnec.
Brui1, Chanzy and LatOuche- Treve. They ex-
pected to make a seventeenknOt speed with about
knots under forced draft and 5000 horse power The
coal supply at normal displacement is 3o4 tons. giving
radius Of action, at ten knots speed of 1000 knots
or Just about the same as The capacity Of the cruiser
cost of the first two named, Inclusive Of hull and
chnery, which are being built by the French Govern
for the other two being constructed by private firms Is
Including machinery, 81 $4,000.
The Trehouart, Bouvlnes, Jcmmapes and valmy are
the names Of four others Of the new cruisers. The
first named is being built by the Government at an
estimated cost Of 81 000 and the Others are being
constructed at private contract AS regards the hull
the four vessels Identical and each will have
displacement Of 1000 tons. The Trehouart will be
supplied with the Beleve tubulous boilers, and the
Others will be furnished with mutubular boilers with
Of these vessels natural draft IS sixteen knots with
the engines making 100 revolutions a minute. The
water line Is to be armorclad from one end to the
either. Their hulls are to be Of the "Reminiscences
steel and the stem and stern are to be Of cast steel
fonrnch quick firing guns. four guns OF forty seven
mmeres 10 little less than two Inches in dGmeter,
ten llotchkss guns VI thirtyseven mmetres and two
torpedo throwers.
One OF class Of torpedo catches building for the
italian Navy is the Partcnope. She will have length
Of 246 feet breadth of beam OF twenty and one
half feet and displacement Of only 800 tons when
fully equipped. Hence she will have daught so light
that 1t Is expected she will skim over the surface Of
the water at tremendous rate Of speed The hull OF
the boat was built at Casteiamsre. The trials that
nave Oeci gwen 10 ner up 10 Tie present nave met
with excellent results
The Emperor Nicholas I. which was begun BY tho
Russian Government moro than three years ago. and
which Is approaching readiness for the steam trials Is
an armored cruiser Of the largest type. She has
length Of 348 feet and displacement Of $50 tons
She Is twin screw vessel, and her engines are of the
triple expansion type and arranged like those on the
armored ship Maine Of the Cnitd States Navy The
cost OF the hull was % ,l97, 702 and her machinery
| has cost 81 900 900 additional.
The armored battle ship sinope. which is similar ID
the Tchesme and Cstharine II. also Of the Russian
Navy. has displacement Of 10. l6o tons She Il only
800 12 feet long but she has breadth Of beam Of SO
feet. She has one Of the most complete aud nove
compartment systems that was ever arranged the door
the waerught 6ulkheads being above the noors and
nooded time given to close the door before the wste
can get Into the adjoining compartment. In hcl
speed trial recently she made record Of seventeen
| knots
The Russian Government recently laid the keel fo
now 11.0O0-ton battleship to be named the Ruric
She Is to be 400 feet long and 81 feet BEAM The sd
srmor Is to DO ten inches thick and her estimaet
speed 1. eighteen knots. The keel Of new armor<
turret Snip tho Nyarinc, was laid about the same tim,
~ the luric. The dimensions are 900 feet long b,
| W. foet beam, with displacement OF about 1000
| TOMS Her estimated speed Is seventeen Knots