LIST OF DREADNOUGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 15

LIST OF DREADNOUGHTS.

« : IN WORLD, BUILT OR BUILDING. Nation. . Names of Ships. Tls. British Dreadnought, Invincible, SI Inflexible, Indomitable, ' Tcmeraire, Bellerophon, Superb, St. Vincent, Vanguard, Collingwood, Indefatigable, Neptunri, Colossus, Hercules, Orion, Thunderer, Monarch, Con. queror, New Zealand, Princess Royal, Lion, King . George, Ajax, Centurion, Audacious, Queen Mary, Delhi, Benbow, Iron Duke, Marlborough, Tiger. German Nassau, Westfalen, Rhein- 22 land, Posen, VonderTann, Thuringen, Ostfriesland, Helgoland, Moltke, Goeben, Oldenburg, Kaiser, Kaiserin, Fre'dcrich der Grosse, Prinz Regent Luitpold, Konig Albert, Seydlitz. ' Ersatz AVeissenburg, Ersatz lvonig, Frederick IVilhelm, "S" and "If." American South Carolina, Michigan, 12 Delaware, North Dakota, Florida, Utah, Arkansas, Wyoming, New York, ' Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada. Japan Settsu, - Kawachi, Korgo, 7 Hiyci, Ilaruna, Ivivischima, Fuso. French Jean Bart, Courbet, 7 France, Paris, Lorraine, Brotagno, Provence.. Italian Danto Aligliieri, Count di G Cavour, Leonardo da Vinci, Duilio. Giulio : Ce'sai'o, Andrea Dorlai Austrian Viribus Unitis, Tcgelthof. 2 Russian Gangoot, Poltava, Petro- 7 pavlovsk, Sevastopol, -Ekaterina 11, Imperator Maria, , Alexander, 111. The last. three belong to tho Black •Sea ; fleet. / In Semi-Dreadnoughts: Britain 2; Germany, 0; Japan, C; France, 0; Italy, 0; Austria, .3; and Russia -2. . Tho total number of Dreadnoughts in the chief navies of the world, built or in • sight, is: 90, . and Britain consequently possesses nearly one-third of them. Tho only combination of any two Powers . which could equal this would bo Germany and tho United States. • »

When a cart containing two deer arrived at Leaden Hoding, the place of meet of tho Essex Farmers' Stagbounds 011 February 18, tho horse took fright at tho Hounds and bolted. Tho driver was knocked down nnd a wheel passed over him, while tho cart collided with a motorcar and overturned. Tho deer, however, wcro unhurt, and ono was set free and hunted. Admiral Frederick ander-Jfenlen, a survivor of tho disaster of. ISO 3, when tho Camperdown rammed the Victoria, died recently at Bishop's Slortford, Hertfordshire. Nt, the age of seventy-four. II" served in tho Crimea and in" China nud retired ir. 1301,

battleship is mora than/equal to tho 20inch compound (-.rmoar of tho Trafalgar in its powers of resistance, on littlo inoro than half tho wei;ht, With'tho broadside protection in modern warships must bo associated tli'o armour' of the citadel or redoubt. This is the midship section, above the upper rim of tho_ broadsido bel,ting to tho level of tho main deo'c. In the Dreadnought typo of battleships this armour is formed'of XI inches of Ifrupp steel, tapering to 8 inches, and enclosing the turret mountings and tho upper portions of tho coal bunkers. Njr mus-; the "black diamonds" bo forgotten in estimating a warship s qualities of protection. A solid wall o? coal nine feet in thicki ess makes c. very substantial backing to tho most formidable plating of armour.