New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-14

OTHER ARMORED VESSELS.
Among other armored ships OF the Spanish Navy
are the Princesa de Asturias STEEL the Puig-Cerdh
iron monitor and the Vitora. IRON The Princesa
de Asturias was building at last accounts She Is
classcd as a twenty-knot vessel Of 6.6ls tons DIS
placement She Is 3i7 feet long 81 feet BEAM ana
draws II feet 10 inches of water. Her Indicated
horse power IL given in Lord Brassey's Naval An
nual' az 1000 Her belt armor Is IL Inches thick
her turret armor 1917 inches thick. her parpe'e
i inehes and her deck pn" ten :f
rapid-hre guns two 7-centImerc rapid-nre guns;
four 57-MN and four a7-MM. rapid.are guns. and
two boat pieces. She Is to cost S3OOOup -,
The Pug Cerda was launched in 1874 she ,, Is
small monitor dspacing only @ tons h her IhrK r
rets is inches. She has oncn pro.ecn,r W LII
She mounts one ,sd iHGeh tvne anu
'" The Vtora carries eight 9nch muzzle
Armstrong guns. three S-inch guns OF the same
type one 2o-centimetre, and twenty smaller weap-
'"' UNARMoRED SHIPS.
Spain has all told twenty-nne unarmored ships
These the cruisers Alfonso XII. Alfonso NIL
Aragon Castillo Concha. Condo de Venadito. Cris-
tobal Colon Don Antonio Ulloa. Don Juan de AS
turias the gunboats Destructor and Elcano the
cruiser Ensenada. the gunboats Fernando ei CATO
lea Filipnas Galicia General Leo the cruisers
Infanta Isabella. Isabel II. 1sla de cuba. ana isia
de Iuzon. the sloop Jorge Juan. the cruiser I''-
panto. the gunboats Margellanes. Marques del
Duero Meraies del Moines. and Martin AlonZo
Pinzon the cruiser Navarro, the gunboats H. Z ana
d. Nuevo Espana and Rapido. the cruisers Reina
Christina and Rcna NJ r'edes the 'soop sanchez
Barcaistcgui and the .n5oat Temerario. the cruis
or Vcasco and gunboats Veloz and Nncente fanez
Pinzon
Spain recently lost through laundering. one OF
her finest cruisers the Roina Regente. or the ves-
s.s named the Alfonso XIII Is the largest. heaviest
armed and swftest of her class. She Is cruiser
OF 300 tons displacement. has length OF jim ice'
beam of 30 feet and draught OF ~ feet She has two
nropeIlers and her indicated horsepower Is ll.W'
Her battery comprises four 20-centmettes and six
i2.centimctre guns six INN and six 3i-MM. rap
IN fire guns and three smaller pieces. Her coal ca
pacity Is loo tons.
The steel cruiser Lepanto. with record OF twenty
knots has displacement OF 4s2b tons ana an IN,
dIcated horse power OF 1900. She Is OF steel ana
carries four 2r-centimetre guns! six l2centimetre
rand nr. guns six G-poundcr. and four 3-pounder
rapd fire guns In addition she has five small guns
She also has five torpedo tubes.
Following the general dimensions OF rev OF
the larger Spanish vessels OF the unarmored type
The cruiser Navarro. 3.3i2 tons. speed 10 Knots;
battery six lC-centimetrc. two I-ccntmetr". three
LINN two 42-MM and six 3-pounder rapid
guns The Rcna Mercedes. 5000 tons displacement.
Il knots battery same as the Relna christina The
Arago displacement 33I2 tons. speed ~ knots. bat
tcrv four i,-ceniimetrc. two l2-ccntimetre. TWO
linn and four 1is-centImcire krupp guns. and
eight rapd-nre small pieces; ,.
In SPANS naval list number OF her gunboats are
classed as torpedo gunboats Some OF these. SUCH
as the Filipino. have developed speed OF twenty
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