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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5100, 28 July 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

■HEN'S OVERCOATS. BLUE PETERSHAM ULSTER, 19s 601. BLUE CHESTERFIELD, : 29s 6d. THE STRONGEST IRON-CLAD YETJ (Daily: News.) ;. The Admiralty, it is. said, proposes to construct another big ,turret vessel without delay, which is to exceed in size' and strength the Inflexible as much as" this does the Thunderer or Devastation. The armour plating of the, last-named is some fourteen inches at its thickest, while the Inflexible is being, protected at Portsmonth with twenty-two-inch plates. But twenty-two inches of, iron, as the Spazia experiments have taught us,, are easily pierced with the big,Anglo-Italian : guns "with which Sir William Armstrong ; and Company have provided the Italian navy ; and if the next turret ship we build is to keep out projectiles from these one-, hundred-ton weapons, its bulwarks will need to be very stout and strong indeed. Anything less than three feet solid metal could not bft relied upon to ward off a shot fired from a one-hundred-ton gun. Thirty-six inches, therefore," at least must be the thickness of the iron walls of our uew iron-clad if it is required to stand the fire of such crafts as the Dandolo and Duilio, both of which the Italians propose to arm with ohe-hundred-ton guns. It will now be for the Constructor of the Navy to say whether he can build a serviceable man-of-war fit to carry armour of this I stupendous weight, together with guns of one hundred or one hundred and fifty tons. For, it would be useless to iiaye a craft of this kind if in the end it proved too ponderous and unwieldy to handle, as some of our floating batteries were. MEN'S TKOFSERS AND VESTS; Reduced to-' Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to The Navies of . the WoHLDi---Accord-ing to statistics published in Germany, the war navies of all -nations:, numbered together, in'1876,;2,039 of which 209 were ironclads, The crews numbered together 280,000 .men, and;, the guns 15,000; and 110 vessels, among them 56 ironclads were in course of construction. As to the possession of the number of war vessels the nations rank as. follow :-^—l, England; 2, France; 3, Russia; 4, Turkey; 5, Austria; 6, Germany; 7, Italy; 8, Spain;. 9, Holland; 10, Denmark; 11, Sweden and Norway; 12, Portugal. . ■ ' ;!'•"" EPS BLACK COATS. 9s 9d Usual price I9s 6d lis 9d Usual price 25s 6d 14s 9d Usual price 29s 6d JEEPS- SAC SUITS.