A FORMIDABLE WAR-SHIP.
Designs have been prepared in Portsmonth Dockyard of a new gun vessel thnt is likely to have a most important effect on the naval architecture of the-future. The general principle of the ship h9B been adopted by the Admiralty, and the fleet which it is proposed to construct will be built by contract. The new vessel, which which will be built at a cost not exceed-' ing a fourth of the Inflexible or Colossus, will carry one 130 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 also be 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 bejable to keep upan all round simultaneous fire. She hto be capable of great speed, and though she is to be called a gunvessel, she will in reality be a torpedo cruiser.
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5168, 10 August 1885, Page 3
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176A FORMIDABLE WAR-SHIP. Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5168, 10 August 1885, Page 3
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