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the world's war-ships. 
Melampus, Naiad, Pique, Rainbow, Retribution, Latona, Sappho, 
Scylla, Sirius, Spartan, Sybille, Terpsichore, Thetis, and Tribune. 
Like the rest of the new cruisers they have no fighting tops. 
The Medea type, from which the Apollo's were evolved, comprise 
the Magicienne, Marathon, Medea, Medusa, and Melpomene. They 
are only 265 feet in length, beam 41 feet, and tonnage 2800. They, too, 
have a speed of 20 and a coal endurance of 8000 knots. They carry 
six B.L. 6-inch guns, of which only two are broadside guns, fired out 
of small circular projections from the deck. The bow and stern guns, 
which are mounted on the forecastle and poop, are not in the line of 
keel, but in the same overhanging towers as the broadside weapons. 
They are rigged in the manner described for the Apollo type, but have 
fighting tops, if one can so call them, half-way up the fore and main 
masts. They have a 6-pr. mounted right astern, which is very notice¬ 
able. They proved far too cramped, hence the Apollo type. 
Another type is that built for the Australian Colonies, the Katoomba, 
Mildura, Wallaroo, Tauranga, and Ringarooma, they are improved 
Archers, and before Colonial names were given were known as the 
Pandora type. They are 265 feet long, 41 feet in breadth, and 2900 
tons displacement, running 19 knots, with a coal endurance of 4800 
knots. The armament consists of eight 4*7-inch guns, two being on 
the forecastle, two on the poop, and two each on the port and star¬ 
board sides on the upper deck. These guns, which form the main 
armament of so many of the smaller cruisers, it must be remembered, 
penetrate 10 inches of wrought iron, and fire 10 shots per minute. In 
addition to these there are the usual smaller pieces. They are rigged 
as the Apollo type. Of the same class are the Pallas, Pearl, Philomel, 
and Phoebe. 
This completes the second-class cruisers. 
The third-class comprise but one type of two dimensions. The 
Barracouta, Barrosa, Blanche, and Blonde, are only 1580 tons, 220 
feet long and 35 feet beam. They carry six 4*7-inch Q.F., four 
3-prs., and two Maxims, with a speed of 16*5 knots and a coal endur¬ 
ance of 3400. Similar with them are the Barham and Bellona, 1830 
tons a speed of three more knots. 
We have now only to name three other ships and we have completed 
the armoured and protected ships of our Navy. The Polyphemus is 
the sole representative at present of a torpedo ram. She carries only 
six 6-prs. Q.F., and in section is not unlike that of an onion. Her 
keel is one of her peculiarities, it being only a recess. She is really a 
floating cylinder. The other two are the Hecla and Vulcan. Being 
Torpedo ships neither are likely to come into a conflict with forts. 
In the above, it will be observed I have said little or nothing about 
firing at, or hitting any of the above; in the first place much will have 
to be discussed with reference to this when we deal with foreign ships, 
and in the next to shorten space it seemed better to defer this—the 
crux of the whole to then. 
I have also left out of account torpedoes as not being an Artillery 
subject. 
