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THE WORLDS WARSHIPS. 
in embrasure ports under forecastle, four in what are termed flat 
sponsons, which may be described to the lay mind as flat brackets 
projecting from the sides. These are abaft the foremost funnel and 
lief ore the mizen. On the main deck between these sponsons are five 
14 cm guns on either side. In general appearance, she has a poop and 
topgallant forecastle, with a long ram bow with spur. Barque rigged, 
though she has fighting tops. Her main and mizen masts are very 
close indeed together, which gives her a curious appearance. Two 
round funnels, the after one well before the mainmast. She has 
steamed close on 17 knots, with a coal endurance at the usual speed of 
4000 knots. 
This first-class cruiser was followed by the Tage, begun in 1885, 
completed in 1890. She is much bigger, 7045 tons displacement, 390 
feet long, 54 feet beam. 
Her speed has been increased to 19 knots, her coal endurance is not 
known, but she carries about the same amount as our Edgar class, 
which is estimated as 10,000 knots. She has an arched armoured 
deck, at sides 2’2 inches thick, it runs the whole length, and is four 
feet three inches below the water-line at the sides. She is also pro¬ 
tected by a coffer-dam three feet three inches wide, which runs round 
her between the armoured deck and the lower deck, this is filled with 
cellulose. The space above this is taken up with coal and stores. Her 
armament is similar and placed the same way as that of the Sfax. 
She is very long, low in the water, and has a ram bow and horizontal 
bowsprit. Three light masts, the former with yards. All three with 
fighting tops. Three funnels between fore and mainmasts, which have 
an inverted bowl, so to speak, at the top. 
The Cecille is a little smaller, 5766 tons displacement, 378 feet long, 
50 feet beam. She also can steam 19 knots. She is very similar to 
the Tage and carries the same armament, but has no coal above the 
protective deck. She is higher in the water to look at than the Tage, 
and her three funnels are much larger and without the rim. Lightly 
rigged as a barque, no royals. She carries much less coal, estimated 
at 3500 knots at 13-knot speed. 
Smaller again is the Jean Bart, completed in 1890 ; 4160 tons, 
length 346 feet, and beam 43 feet. She differs a good deal from the 
above ships, as she carries all her armament on the upper deck : four 
guns in angular sponsons on either side, one gun under topgallant 
forecastle, and one right aft on the poop. These two are 14 cm , as are 
also those in the four centre sponsons, while there are four 16 cm in the 
outer sponsons. She is rigged as a barque without royals; has two 
oblong funnels dividing the space equally between fore and mainmasts. 
The first pair of sponsons are abreast of the foremost funnel, the next 
just abaft the after funnel, the third close to it, just in line with the 
mainmast, the last half-way between main and mizen masts. Sisters 
to the Jean Bart are the Isly and Alger. The last is just about com¬ 
pleted, the Isly is not above half built. 
This completes the first-class protected cruisers. 
Of the second-class there are but two sister ships, the Davout and 
Suchet, the latter will be only half built by 1893. The Davout is 
