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book bearing on tlie subject presents a different plan of this much 
delayed vessel. She will be of about the same size as the class just 
considered, but beyond this it is fairly vain to speculate. The Martel 
is not quite so bad a case, but has much the same sort of history, and 
is only to be advanced up to six-hundredths by 1st January, 1892, and 
only quarter built by 1st January, 1893. 
Two other first-class battleships are in progress, the Jaureguibery 
and the Lazare Carnot. They are to be 12,000 tons displacement, 
356 feet long, and 72 feet beam. 
The armoured belt is to be 18 inches thick in maximum, four turrets 
for the principal armament, and four, with two 14 cm guns in them, for 
secondary, doubtless the guns will fire over them en barbette. They 
are to steam 17 and 18 knots. The first has, I believe, not yet been 
begun, and only five-hundredths is to be advanced in 1893, the latter 
is in about the same state as the Martel. 
One of their features is that electricity is to be used instead of 
hydraulic power. 
Turning to the second-class battleships we get a group of four, the 
Terrible, Indomptable, Requin (Shark), Caiman. It is again confus¬ 
ing that these ships which here figure as second-class battleships are 
only bigger and improved editions of the coast defenders, considered 
in Period 2. 
The last of that batcb was the Furieux. On this was built the 
Terrible, then the three others identically sisters. As a proof that 
they are rightly classified here, it may be noticed that the Requin, as 
well as her forbear, the Furieux, came to Portsmouth this summer 
with the French fleet. 
Their displacement is 1600 tons more than the first group, making 
over 7000, 280 feet long, 60 feet beam. They can steam 14 knots, 
but their coal endurance is still small, 2680 knots at 10-knot speed. 
They look more like sea-going ships than the Furieux, the freeboard 
being’ again greater, while the two turrets or rather barbettes are 
nearer the bow and stern. To look at they are more after the style of 
our Admirals. The belt is increased to nearly 20 inches, diminishing 
at the ends to eight inches, and is two feet eight inches above the 
water and five feet below. 
The barbettes have 18 inches of compound armour, and contain a 
42 C1U 75-ton gun, for secondary armament four 10 cm . As regards 
recognising them they have a ram bow with spur; the side is carried 
up to the spar deck amidships, thus looking as if it was a central 
battery. There are four funnels, but looking like two abreast, except 
in the Requin, where the casing is not carried up so high. The 
position of the funnels is a little to the bow of the centre line. In 
front of these there is a large deck-house on the spar deck. The 
stern is circular. Unlike the class from which they emanated, they 
have two military masts, with single tops. 
The French would still, I fancy, count these four vessels as Garde- 
cotes which, as has been explained, embraces a wider usefulness than 
we attach to it, With them second-class battleships were originally 
intended for foreign service; of recent years these have been termed 
