THE WORLDS WARSHIPS. 
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There are three other armoured cruisers being built. The first, the 
Gaugoot, is evidently of secondary importance, 278 feet long, 62 feet 
beam, and 6600 tons displacement. She has been launched, but, I 
think, not completed. I can learn little about her. She is only esti¬ 
mated to go 14*5 knots an hour, and is to have six 9-inch and six 
6-inch guns. 
The Navarin is a splendid vessel, 338 feet long, 67 feet beam, 9457 
tons displacement; to steam 16 knots, and to carry four 12-inch 50-ton 
guns, with eight 6-inch. Even finer is the Rurik, nearly 11,000 
tons displacement, 396 feet long, and 67 feet beam, 18 knots an hour, 
with four 8-inch 13'5-ton guns and 16 6-inch, with a belt 10 inches 
thick. 
I append a list of the armoured fleet we have been considering 
RUSSIAN ARMOURED FLEET.—BALTIC. 
Peter the Great, Dvenadsat Apostoloff—12 Apostles, GlieorgRy Pobye- 
donoset, and Hango-Udd. 
Armoured Cruisers. 
Minim, General-Admiral, Gergoz Edinburgski, Vladimir Monomakh, Dimitr 
Donskoi, Admiral Nacliimoff, Emperor Alexander II., Emperor 
Nicolas L, Pamyat Azova, Gangoot, Navarin, and Rurik. 
BLACK SEA. 
Tchesma, Catherine II., and Sinope. 
I have already mentioned that horizontal armour alone Russia does 
not trust in. Hence she has only three protected cruisers. The Rynda 
and the Vitiaz are sister ships; 3000 tons displacement, 265 feet long, 
46 feet beam. They can steam but 15 knots, with a coal endurance 
of 2400 at LO-knot speed. The steel deck is 1*5 inches thick. The 
armament consists of 10 6-inch 4'1-ton guns, of which four are in 
sponsons and train fore and aft, the remainder on the broadsides 
between the sponsons. They are rigged as a barque, and have two 
funnels between fore and mainmasts. There is a clipper bow and top¬ 
gallant forecastle. 
A different kind of vessel is the Admiral KornilofF, 5000 tons dis¬ 
placement, 350 feet long, and 49 feet beam, steaming 19 knots; here 
the deck for protection is 2'5 inches thick. 
She has 14 6-inch guns on broadside on the upper deck, the 
embrasure being 16*25 feet wide; the foremost and after guns are in 
sponsons which do not project much. She is lightly rigged as a 
barque—no royal yards—and has two protected tops. Two funnels, 
fore and aft. 
This completes the Russian fleet, with the exception of three 
armoured gunboats, the Grozyashtchy, Ofrain, and the Gremgastchy. 
They are 220 feet long, 40 feet beam, 1500 tons displacement. The 
last two are still building. They each carry one 9-inch 19-ton gun 
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