New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-28
NAVAL PROGRESS ABROAD.
vARsHIPs OF MANY KINDS BUILDING
BY FOREIGN NATIONS.

wARsHIPs OF MANY KINDS BUILDING
BY FOREIGN NATIONS.
ARE ACTIVE. AND CHINA WILL STRIVE TO
RANK AS A SEA PowER-TEsrs OF THE
SHIPS AND ORNAMENTS.
Washington April q (SpeciaD.-The Office of
Naval Intelligence. Navy Department. has issued
q supplemental manual on naval progress abroad
which brings information the subject down to
the end Of January. The new manual deals with
foreign ships and torpedo-boats, ordnance and small
arms In relation 10 SPANS navy. in which so
much interest recently shown. the manual
states the Spanish Government is bringing Tor
ward It's ships rapidly as possible This Is par
ticuary noticeable in the Cristobal Colon building
at Genoa. Upon this vessel work Is being carried
on night and day. 1900 men being employed 1t Is
noted that Spanish subjects residing abroad con-
tinue TO contribute for making important additions
10 the navy. The Spanish colony at Buenos Ayres
alone has contributed about S4ooooo Tor ouiiomg
one shin. The Admiralty has under consideration
hds for the construction Of nm IL .OO0-ton battle
ship and a 6.Jo0-ton cruiser. As soon as the con-
tract Is made for tho construction OF the cruiser
plans will be made by the Spanish constructors Tor
duplicate vessel. 20 be built al Cadz. The manual
gives the naval progress of foreign countries In al
phabetcal order. beginning with Argentina That
country is pressing work on the Jose Garbald an
armorcd cruiser of $40 tons a description or the
ship in the manual shows that the vesse VIII DC
modern in all respects Her electrical installation
will be unusually extensive. She will have FOUR
mole compound dynamos, each being connected 10
s.ngle-cynder vertical engine with external gov
ernor in a fywheel. also heavy fywheel on the
shaft between the engine and dynamo The output
or the principal dynamo will be 200 amperes at
kixty-nye volts with a speed of go revolutions Tho
wiring Of the ship IL six circuits. The total de-
IL. xil be l.. s.
sides supplying the usual lamps for lighting parts
of the ship electricity will operate six veh''ia'ors'
three motors in the engineers Workshop TWO mo-
tor transformers, three ammunition hosls' t"o
large turre; motors. two small turret motors ana
three projectors. Argentina is preparing 10 seha
Tho armi-antc Brown to France. 10 have her main
battery Of TS7-inch guns replaced by o9-nch rapid
fire guns OF 30 calibre. The new guns VIII DC mount
ed six in 4 redoubt and four on deck, TWO 10 the
bow and one 10 the stern. The cost of changing
the battery will be S2t000o The four hrst-claSs
srmo~ed torredo boats building by Yarrow d Co.
in England for Argentina. have received the names
OF Sante Fe. Correntes. MiStores ana Eh're MOS
In n recent steam trial the Co-rientcs developer
S;27 average revolutions and speed OF -,.1i ho,'
per hour In a similar trial the Entire Rios macs
Sj4s revolutions per minute, and speed OF 2o.o
knots per hour In her trial the MisioAes MADE 100
revolutions. and a speed OF lbs knots
AUSTRIA AND BRAZIL ARE BUSY.
Austria has tested her coast defence Vessei' Vi,
Wien The ship made 17.s knots. and oeVeiopeu
500 horse power. Brazil has named one Oh hei
new coast defence vessels the Ypiranga. Inc man
ual describes the Almrante Barrozo, whch II Is
renorted has been sold 10 Japan. The SHIPS length
is $50 feet 10 inches; beam. - feet ihches' Ho'
drauch, Is feet 10 inches: displacement $50 tons
ana estimated speed. 20 knots. she carries o.
cal.hre s-irch rapid-fre guns disposed 50 as 10
fire ahead and asterr; 5O-cahbre f'-ine"
,,n,s-6,e guns: 10 6-pounders and 1-pounder No;-
denfelt ;apid-n.e guns; Maxim guns iahdihs
guns and torpedo tubes. She is protector oS
lish; steel deck. extending from the DOW 10 the
stern IN addition the coal bunHeTs extend 10 a
height Of six feet above the water line Brazii
has a sis,er of the Barrozo. the Amazonas. build
ing at Elsvick England. She was launched Decem-
Ter L. The country is having three torpeuo Nesse'
O. 1000 tons each constructed at kieL Chii.ah
torpedo boat OF the destroyer tyPe, the Tenente
Serrano. building at Birkenhead, England mas hau
her sDced trials and has developed the remarkably
fast time of SOS5 knots per hour. during three
hours continuous run.
china it IS stated in the manual, proposes to
make an earnest endeavor 10 reconstruct her navy
md assume rank as a naya! power. The Day Oh
Kahn Chlau on the south side OF the Shantung
rromontory is 10 be dredged out fortified and mado
great naval depot. and the arsenal at Foo-Choo
4. 20 be enlarged as 70 ne capable OF construct
ing all types of warships In addition 10 thre: pro-
,ected cruisers. be built at the Vulcan WORKS
Ste.:in. the Armstrong Company has received an
order 70 build two protected cruisers Of which the
following are tho principal data: Length over all,
"a feet: length between perpendlculars, SS feet;
extreme breadth 4s feet inches: mean draught 10
feet 9 inches: displacement. 1900 tons. Armament.
. snch rapld-hra guns, mounted on the middle
line forward and aft each TO have a train OF 1S5
degrees on either side OF the middle line: 10 Al
inch rapd-hre guns. mounted in broadsde. but the
two forward and the two aft guns train from d.
rect.y ahead astern 10 forty-fve degrees abaft
the beam and the others have train OF sixty de-
grees on either side OF the beam: 16 3-poundere.
6 l.pounders and torpedo tubes The en-
gines are designed develop 1900 indicated horse
power The protective deck will he Is inches thick
on the ends and inches thick on the slopes over
the machinery. 1t will be . inches thick over the
cylinders. The coming tower will be 6 inches
thick The vessels to have steamlnx radius
o. 200 knots at full epeed. and 5000 knots at 10
knots speed. They make "a knots speed on
forced draugh,. and 22.5 knots natural draught.
Each Is 10 sGSS 600 and all are to be finished In
eighteen months China has orderei four hrst-c.ass
torpedo-hoat from a German firm. They are to be
completed in thirteen months.
FRANCE LAUNCHES SEVERAL SHIPS.
The manual notes the fact that France has
launched her Il 2sc ton battle-shp. the Gaulois ex
actlv nine months after she was laid down, and
has also lam, rcd the cruiser Catinat. The battle