The record-union., 1893-12-30

displacement, and sea speed OF ~ knots,
with two 9.4-inch and twelve 53-inch guns
in the main battery; three protected
cruisers of $3.50 tons and 1871 knots; one
OF 2,3l7 tons and 70 knots; torpedo yes
sci of 944 tons and 2l1 knots; small gun
vessel and many torpedo boats. The
budget OF 1894, which was recently passed,
is stlIl more extensive. 1t proposes to
lay down no fewer than thirty-two yes-
sells, and appropriates over SO, COZ, 600 Tor
new construction. The vessels INCLUDE
three battle-ships, six protected cruisers,
nineteen torpedo DoatS a dispatch VesSeI,
and three gunDoatS. The battIe-ShlpS are
TO have displacement OF lZ,OOO tons ana
triple-screw engines OF 14,500 indicated
horsepower, giving a speed OF Is knots;
will have 114-inch arnor, and Will De
heavily armed. y new torpedo boat, on
a displacement Of l20 tons, Is TO reach o,ZOO
horse power, and the enormous speed Oh
80 knots. Remembering The difference
between a sea mile anu land mile, IL
will be observed that this speed Is IKE
that OF an express train.
England's unequaled outlays for her
navy can be understood by noticing that
for the three wears 1890, 1891 and 1892 she
launched fifty-eight vessels, having an
aggregate displacement OF 302,9 ,9o5 tons
and oil 600 horsepower, to cost Co.,
077, ,0l0. That was part Of the programme
of 1889, of seventy vessels, to cost SlOI,
900, 600. IL is believed that all but nine OF
these will be completed by March 3lst
next But already many other vessels
have been undertaken. The two great
armored cruisers Powerful and Terri bic
and the two splendid battle-ships Mag
nificent and Majestic are of $4,000 and
100 tons each. A third battle-ship, the
RenoWn, of 1880 tons, has been laid
down at Pembroke, and the protected
cruisers Talbot, Minerva and Eclipse, of
$500 tons and 194 knots, at Davenport,
Chatham and Portsmouth, Many new
torpedo boats are also under construction,
ana for some of them II knots has been
guaranteed.
FAST VESSELS OWNED BY ITALY.
Italy's appropriation of S5,000,0O0 for
new construction permits work upon two
more battleships of $3.50 tons and Is
knots, carrying four 10-inch, eight 6-inch
and eight 4.7-inch guns; upon the $500
ton armored cruisers Carlo Alberto and
Vettor Pisani, of $4,000 horsepower, and
twelve 6-inch and SIX 4.7-inch guns; and
upon several other vessels and torpedo
boats. One of the boats made for her by
Schichau achieved PA knots in an hours
open-sea run; others 264 knots an hour
for two hours.
Russia has set aside Sic, 800, 900 for ship
building, and has laid down two 4,000-ton
coast defenders, an armored cruiser of
the Rurik type, and four torpedo vessels.
The Rurik, of 1928 tons, has a heavy
steel water-line belt, and is to reach a sea
speed of Isl knots, with an extreme
radius of 1900 miles. She carries the
noteworthy main battery OF four S-inch,
sixteen 6-inch and six 4.7-inch guns. The
two others of her type are little larger.
one displacIng IA, 500 tons, and both make
l9 knots.
Germany has cut down her estimates
for new ships this year. She has launched
the battleship Worth, the coast defenders
Heimdall and Hildebrand, ana the pro-
tected cruiser Getion, while eight addi
tional torpedo boats have been ordered.
Spain has launched the torpedo vessels
Pinzon and Filipinas, of twenty knots.
and authorized others. Austria has in
her programme two coast defenders of
about $500 tons and seventeen and one
fourth knots, with four 9.4-inch and six
6-inch guns. She has launched the arm
ored cruiser Maria Theresa of 5,270 tons
and nineteen knots, and the Danube
monitor SZamOs.