The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-26


esq, 900. Her armament consists of six
6-irch breech-loading rifles, eight g.
pound rifles, two machine guns, two
launching car torpedoes and one fixed
torpedo carriage.
The Partridge is first class compo-
site gun boat of l, 755 tons. She is los
feet long, with an 114-foot beam. Her
engines have an indicated capacity of
l, 200 horse power. Her speed is 1925
knots per hour, Her armament consists
of six finch rifles and four machine
guns She was launched ia 1883 and
cost 997 500
Frances Representatives.
OF the French contingent the Jean
Bart is protected cruiser, which was
built ia 1887 and cost, complete. 1000
600 francs. She is 352 feet in length,
with beam of 4ss feet, and displace-
ment of 4, 1852 tons. Her engines develop
5000 horse power. Her speed is 49, IS
knots per hour. Her battery is four
e-inch rifles and six 5-inch rifles, with
secondary armament of four 3-pounder
rapid-fring guns, six revolving cannon
and six torpedo tubes.
The Arethuse is fine choking, old
fashioned wooden ship. Her dimensions
are 277.6 feet long, 1873 feet beam, and
2l.9 feet draught She is gun deck
frigate, with topgallant forecastle
and poop Her armament consists of
four 16-centimetre breech-loading rifles.
twenty-five 14-centimetre rifles and
eight machine guns. Her speed is IL
knots per hour
The Hussard is smaller ship than
the Arethuse. She is bark rugged, with
graceful lines. Her dimensions are:
211 feet long, $40 feet beam and
draught of 1877 feet. She was launched
in 1877, and her speed is twelve knots
per hour. Her armament consists of
four I4-centimetre breech-loading rifles
and six revolving cannon.
The Czar's Contingent.
The Dimitri Donskoi. the flagship of
the Russian feet, is a twin screw. steel.
irst-class cruiser Of 5,s93 tons and
speed OF 155 knots per hour. She is
2s6 feet long. with beam of 80 feet
and draught of "a feet Her engines
are capable of developing 1000 horse
power. Her armament consists of a
pair of s-inch breech-loading rifles,
fourteen 6-inch breech-loading rifles,
fourteen machine guns, and four long
6-ton cannon. She also carries four
fixed torpedo carriages, and four
launching torpedo carriages. She was
launched in 1883
The General Admiral is single
screw protected cruiser of iron, copper
sheathed She is 2S55 fee. long. with
a beam of 40 feet, and q draught Of
22.9 feet, Her displacement is $500
tons and her engines have an indicated
horse power of Ar Her speed is II
knots per hour. Her armament is
similar to that of the Dimitri Donskoi.
The Rynda of the Baltic Sea feet is a
cruiser Of 1850 tons. 265 8 feet long, a
beam of $50 feet and draught OF Is
feet. Her engines give an indicated
sixteen knots per hour. Her arma,
ment consists OF ten 6-inch rifles, six
machine guns. four torpedo tubes and
four fixed torpedo carriages.
The Vessels of Italy.
The Etna. the Italian flagship, IS a
steel protected twin screw cruiser OF
8. $50 tons, 2s2a feet long, with beam
-. feet. Her armament consists OF two
2s-ton breech-loading rifles, SIX s-ton
rifles and four torpedo carriages
The Giovanni Bausan is one OF the
vessels present at the Columbian naval
parade in New York harbor last 0c- |
tober. She Is protected cruiser, car |
,--ying the same battery as the Etna. but /
IS somewhat smaller, with displace- +!
nent OF ;. o6S tons
The Dogali IS a steel protected twin I
screw cruiser OF :. 0&a tons She IS $50 1
feet long. with S.-foot beam and +
iraught of 14-6 feet. She Is one q 1
italy's fastest cruisers, with speed 81 +
1919 knots per hour. Her armament +
consists az SIX 6-inch rifles nine QuicLz- +
firing guns and three torpedo ca--i- .
are
=: 70 Eriodno IS an unarmorcd trans
cor. ard carries ten guns