THE LARGEST AFLOAT. The Latest Addition to the English Navy.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 3

THE LARGEST AFLOAT. The Latest Addition to the English Navy.

Naval men < r in<l marine hi'chitccts are discuyrfing tli-- J u ■ st. addition to the British navy. Th' >.1 magnificent twin-fjcrew, armour-plat • I >ahle ship, and she pi onuses to be tho uio-M., p iuerful ship of war ailoat. She was n imcd'thc Hans Pareil, by (Jeorge Hamilton. Tho Saus Pareil, with her engine:- and <iMin t^->, is the heaviest vessel evor launchoil in Kn gland except the Great Eastern, her w ei^'ht being ovei' (5,000 tons. Slio i^ 340 fV'^t, in length, 70 feet in breadth, 'H feet I! iiK 'i i' dopth.and of 10.470 tons displacement H< v engines will be 7,500 horse powei n.Mtuinl draught and 12,000 hoive-powei }or-od draught. Her annamenb will i on-i^t of two 16-inch 111-ton guns, one 10-inch 2!)-ton j^un, twelve 0-inch o-ton ,yun^, nine .'5-pounder quick-tiring gun*, twelve M\-p.ourder quick-iirinn- guns, two 1-inch iVoidenteldfc pruns, eight 14-inch Whiteliead torpedo tubes, and four O. idinch Nordcntcidt' Bhe wa.s built, by tho Thames Ironuoik and ShipbuildingCompany. This same firm twenty-seven years a^o laumhe<l the first armour-clad ship, the Warnor, and since then has turned out armour-clad *-hips aggregating 127,212 tons of displacement tonnage.