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THE WORLD S WARSHIPS. 
with us armoured cruisers, and second-class battleships those forced 
from the first line, such as our older craft. The French have now 
begun to adopt the term armoured cruisers.” Of these two types 
are being built, one the Dupuy-de-Lome, will be finished in another six 
months or so, the other—the Bruix type—to consist of the Charner, 
Bruix, Chanzy, and Latouche Treville. Of the first only 35-hundredths, 
of the second eight-hundredths, will be completed by 1st January, 
1892. The other two are being built by contract and should each, by 
1st January, 1892, be advanced 64-hundredths. 
The Dupuy-de-Lome is intended as flag-ship on the China station, 
and being 376 feet long, 51 in beam, and over 6000 tons displacement, 
with a speed of 20 knots per hour, and a coal endurance of 4000 knots 
at half that speed, will compare favourably with our Aurora, Immor- 
talite class, though they can steam 8000 knots, if not quite so fast. In 
protection, however, she is very different. She has a high belt of 
armour, four inches thick, running right round her, and two projecting 
barbettes amidships for her main armament. 
The Bruix type are very long narrow ships, with a much narrower 
belt, slightly thinner; their displacement is under 5000 tons. They 
will have a large barbette bow and stern, and six smaller ones at the 
sides. 
There is yet another group of four vessels, the Trehouart, Bouvines, 
Jemmapes, and Yalmy, named after Republican victories, which must 
be placed among future coast defenders. Lord Brassey remarks of 
them :— 
“ These ships, at first called battleships, are really coast defence 
ships of a powerful type.” 
They have been developed from the fruitful Furieux, and are identical 
in all respects. They will be 283 feet long, 57 feet beam, 6600 tons 
displacement. They will apparently be not unlike the Requin class, 
only with two closed turrets. 
They are none of them likely to be completed in 1892. 
There are only two groups of gunboats to be noticed now among 
the armoured class. In the first group is the Acheron, Cocyte, 
Phlegeton, and Styx, all of the same design and size. The last two 
are not yet completed, while the first is condemned. They are 181 
feet long, 40 feet beam, 1640 tons displacement. True to the French 
plan, there is a belt of armour 4*9 inches high and of a uniform thick¬ 
ness of 7*87 inches. In the bow is a single closed turret for one 27 cm 
27-ton gun. The thickness of its armour is eight inches. It can fire 
through an arc of 270°. In the two older vessels there are two 10 cm 
guns, fired from small barbette towers amidships. The newer craft 
have one 12 cm , firing aft. 
The general appearance is fairly marked. A low freeboard from 
stem to turret, then high from turret to funnel, and lower from funnel 
to aft. Stem straight. Mast in the centre, funnel abaft the mast. 
The second group comprise the Flamme, Fuzee, Grenade, Mitraille. 
All completed. Length 165 feet, beam 32 feet, displacement 1000 tons. 
There is a belt with a height along the sides of 33 inches, and eight 
inches thick amidships to four inches aft. A fixed barbette tower 
