A New Largo Vessel Added to the Czar's Navy. A RUSSIAN GUNBOAT.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 222, 1 October 1887, Page 2

A New Largo Vessel Added to the Czar's Navy.

A RUSSIAN GUNBOAT.

A NEW gunboat, built for the Bussian Government at Copenhagen, has arrived at Cronstadt and has been visited and inspected by the Czar himself, who crossed over in his yachfe front PaterJaoff, the present domicile -of the imperial family. Tho vessel, which has been named the 'Manchuria, has been constructed of steel afc a cost of £55,000. The following at-e the principal dimensions : Length, '210 feet ; beam, 35 feet ; displacement, 1,200 tons ; draught, fore, without artilleiy and war material, 10 feet 2 inches ; aft, 10 feet 7 inches. The boat has two engines, with an indicated force of 1,000 horse power each. They can, without any particular strain, develop a speed of more than thirteen knots. The firmament of the Manchuria will consist of two eight-inch longrange guns in the stern, six Hotc'hkiss, one Baranovsky amd four ,nine-pounder guns. The bottom of the boat is divided into forty-two water-tight compartments, and the hold is amply protected by fourteen air-tight partitions. Moreover, an apparatus for ejecting Whitehead torpedoep will be placed in tTie vessel's bow. The average speed attained during the run from Coj>enhagen lo Cronstadt was eleven and a half knots. The new gunboat i& destined for scrrice iv the ,I'acific ocean.