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AMERICA’S NAVY. Tha Americau Navy includes fcbe following groups: Two battleships with twelve 14-inch and twenty-two 5-ineb guns ; five with ten 14-inch and twenty-one 5-inch guns. Two battleships with twelve 12-inch and twenty-one 5-iDch gone. Four with ten 12-inch and fouMeen nr sixteen 5-incb gune. Two with eight 12-inch and twenty-two o inch guns. The above ships are all of the Dreadnought era, and the two lustnamed eight-gun ships weie actually designed before ( -tl:o epoch-mak-ing British ship. Moreover, all the American Dreadnoughts have had their guns on ibe centie line, and so began the system which every other navy,* after experimenting with other arrangements, has since adopted. Eleven “battleships with four 12inch, eight 8-inch and twelve 7-:nch or 6 inch and numerous small guns. Three with four 12-inch and sixteen G* inch guns, Nino other battle ships, all over 20 years since laying Oowd, armed with 12-inch or 13-inch (old

' (ype) gQCP, with numei ons other guns up to B*incb, but of comds rafciveiy email fighting valu*. Eight coast defence monitors carrying two or four 10-ineh or 12-inch guns. Four large armoured cruisers, with four 10-iucb, sixteen 6 inch and about thirty smaller guus. Six witbfoarß- - fourteen 6-inch and numerous smaller guns. Three large lightly-armoured crnis* era with fourteen 6-iuch and numerous Smaller guDS. Two others, with guns up to 8-inches. AU of these armoured cruisers are over ten years old. Twelve protected cruisers, with 5-incb, 6-inch or 7*inch gaes, all old ships. Three scouts (24 knots), lightly armed. About seventy dts rojers of various types, including a considerable number of fast craft of 750 to 1,100 tons; about seventy torpedo bo ts. About .forty Hubmaiices, of which o ly three ers understood to be oceangoing craft.

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