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NAVIES OF EUROPE. 



HIS ITALIAN MAJESTY'S SHIP LEPANTO. 



Italia and the Lepanto, apparently, are very 

 much more formidable, their dimensions being 

 as follow : Length, 122 metres (or 403 feet) ; 

 greatest breadth, not reckoning the armor, 22 

 metres 28 centimetres (73-11 feet) ; height at 

 the middle section, 15 metres 20 centimetres 

 (49 feet 5 inches) ; medium depth of immer- 

 sion, 8 metres 48 centimetres (27*81 feet) ; ton- 

 nage, about 15,000. The Lepanto will have 

 four 100-ton guns in a central armored redoubt, 

 and eighteen 4^-ton guns in the battery. There 

 are two screws, each moved by two engines 

 and three cylinders on the Penn system, 

 twenty-six boilers, and six funnels. The indi- 

 cated horse-power is 18,000; the expected 

 speed is seventeen miles. There are only two 

 masts, which serve for signaling. Side-armor 

 being altogether abolished, the system of de- 



fense consists in the cellular deck of the first 

 battery, the armor of the main deck, the iron 

 casing of the funnels and passages for projec- 

 tiles, and the armor of the redoubt containing 

 the four cannon. The Lepanto is 22 metres 

 (72*16 feet) longer than the Duilio and Dando- 

 lo, and will have 4,000 more tonnage, about 

 8,000 extra horse-power, and a covered battery 

 of eighteen cannon, which the above-named 

 ships have not. The Lepanto will therefore 

 be much more powerful. As much as possi- 

 ble, she will preserve the type of a frigate, 

 differing here also from the Dandolo and Dui- 

 lio. She will cost about twenty-four million 

 francs. The time fixed for launching her is 

 March 17, 1883. The following is a list and 

 description of the other armored vessels of the 

 Italian navy : 



In the construction of the Lepanto, the ob- 

 ject was to make a ship sufficiently power- 

 ful for offensive as well as defensive opera- 

 tions, and possessing greater speed than any 

 other vessel. 



Italy has an unarmored fleet of 3 frigates, 7 list : 



corvettes, 20 gunboats, 10 dispatch-vessels, 7 

 screw-transports, and a number of smaller 

 vessels. 



NAVY OF SPAIN. The armored ships of the 

 Spanish navy are included in the following 



