A NEW GUN-VESSEL,
Designs have been prepared in Portsmouth dockyard of a new gun-vessel that is likely to have a most important effect on the naval architecture of the future. The general principle of the ship has been adopted by the Admiralty, and the first of the fleet which it is proposed to construct will be built by contract. The new vessel—which will be built at a cost not exceeding a fourth of the Inflexible or Colossus—wi ! l carryone 120-ton gun forward, while astern she will be armed with six heavy breech-loaders, of a calibre not less than those carried by ships of the Dreadnought type. She will be also armed with six machine guns, and be pierced for six torpedo tubes. As a fighting ship she will be of immense power, her guns and torpedoes being so arranged that she will be able to keep up an allround simultaneous fire. She is to be capable of great speed, and though she is to be called a gun-vessel, she will in reality be a torpedo cruiser.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2793, 3 September 1885, Page 2
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176A NEW GUN-VESSEL, Kumara Times, Issue 2793, 3 September 1885, Page 2
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