BRITISH WAR SHIPS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1540, 27 April 1885, Page 2

BRITISH WAR SHIPS.

A LIST OF OLD RKGLAIf D'S KLOATIVa rsUcvMAXxaa^ (Boston Globe.) Look new at these monsters — tho admitted effectives. Of these there am now the Inflexible* — believed to ho a match for anything afloat— of 11,880 tons displacement, having twenty-four inchesof iron armour, on asotid bacfcjftf of twenty four inches of teak, of 8,010 horse-power, and with four SO ton guns in her two turrets ; a veeeel to whose alulity to Utter down fortifications Alexandria's rained lotteries bear witness; the Dreadnought, which has just received bor office in tke Mediterranean, with four 38 to*. guns in her two turrets, and with lighter armour of only fourteen inches ; the Thunderer, Neptune, Coloesaa, Edinburgh. Agamemnon, Ajax, and Monarch, all two turret ships of varying types, the Thunderer having two 88 ton and two 85-to* gans ; tbe ethos* varying from fear 48 ton r>r©eeb-Ida«lere and two 9 inch fans to 88 tons and 11---ton gans ; a bile the Monarch, known to Portland, Me., folks, as hariag brought over the body of George Peabody to tbat harbor, has four 85 ton gnns in her two turrets, two 13 tea guns and one 6f-ton— all teexrleloaders, and therefore not considered of the best kind, but also powerful at Alexandria

Named after the famous British Admirals are the new barbette ships, the Anson, Ben bow, Camperdown. Howe,. Rodney, and Oollingwood, of about ten thousands tons each. The first four are yet on tbe stocks. The Be_h*w will carry two 110 ton breechloaders, pretty little barkers, with a playful projectile of 2.500 pounds wejgfcfriv more, calcutaied lo Meek oot even John L. Sullivan himself —if within a range of nine mile* The other Admirals have fear 69-to- gnm Md smaller pets of six ineheo boro; while the Temorairo, Imperieaoe, ond Warspite—setaller reeeeh) of ' iho smote class — aro content with Si aj_sl Id-tan cannon, five turret rasas, ono of which ia Use New Bora, yet on tha stocks, are also included in the lie!

Then the central battery fieet— ftno vessels, ail of whioh have Wn soeeeo> fol— must bo reckoned. There aro eleven of these ships, from the Alexandra of 9400 tows, with two 26 and *» IS- ton camion, and with twelve inefcet of armour aa nor ma-rimMfe, to tha Orion of 5870 tone, displacement, which like the BeJUnele, its sister chip, yet contrives to carry twelve inches ef iron arme**- and fear tft-ton gone. Of tin elaos of ships the wiftsere, Trnsaflt, Aodacioos, Invincible, and fro* Doko ore almost alike, about 1000 teas, d awing twenty feol of water, with eight inches of iron onaoar, and eerrytag each ten 12-ton muzzle leaders. Three armed cruisers, the Kelson, on she Australian station, the Nortkamptoa, ffqpbip in the North American fleet, recently at Newport, and the Shaaourt, have 12 and 18 ton guns.

For c^ptt defence theve aro five good turret ships. The Glatten, a ram, baa ninteen inches of armour defending her turret, whioh has a 25 too gun, and the Cyclops, Gorgon, Hecate, and Hydra of two turrets eaeb, eight and too inches of iron ermeor, and with 16 ton irans. Tha turreted ships Mag* dala and Abyssinia are in Bombay harbor, and the Cerberus, already mentioned, at Melbourne. Then there aro eighteen nnarmeored vessels, seven of which are fast cruisers, building in tbo roy&r dock-yards, "find four Jrot-eletß ironelade ase, -hy 4 recetuV*alf~% tt ftp * added tft-t&e hat. Ttisoe will carrf 1 10-ton _nns, ond will be designed lo take the first rank.