A MONSTER INDEED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1728, 30 December 1887, Page 3

A MONSTER INDEED

Says the " Spectator" — A vrry special interest attaches to tbe launch of the Trafalgar, from the fact that she and her sister ehlp, the Nile, are In all probability the last of tbe huge floating Ironclad fortresnea whioh will bo built for tbe English Navy— at least, Buch Is the preeent opinion of the naval experts, who declare that the days of such shlpß a* 1 * over, snd that Bmall, very Bwltt oruißera and gunboats are the war-venaelu of the future. Certainly, to Bpend £1,000,000 — which ia tbe sum the Trafalgar will h*vo coßt before she is finished — on one ship whioh a torpedo successfully aimed from a ateam launch might po<Bibly destroy or damage irretrievably In an instant, germs a policy at least open to question. When completed, the Trafalgar will be tho largest and tooat powerful, though not tho moat heavily armed, ship m the British Navy, and also In the world. Though her guns aro not of as enormous a s!z) aa those of tho groat Italaln ironclads or of tha Beobow, which carries guns of 111 tone, her armament is excessively strong She will carry four 67-ton guna, eight 5-iu guns, eight G-pounders, eleven 4 pounder quick-firing guns, and twenty Whitehead torpedoes. Her Bteel-facod armour which is of extraordinary strength, reaobea, ln some of her more vulnerable points, twenty Inches m thickness ; while, notwithstanding her vast weight, ber engines are powerful enough t> drive her through the water at the rate of nineteen miles au hour. The 134 watertight compartments which riiake her well-nigh unßinkable, and the means by which the labyrinth of Iron passages and rooms ia lighted and ventilated, render the Trafalgar so complicated a mvohino that a landaman wonders how it is possible that she could ever stand— as undoubtedly she could— the rough-and-tumble of action. It Is a subject of congratulation tbat it is not a year and nine months since the keel of the Trafalgar was Wd.

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