. The railroad and engineering journal . e ship, 8i ft. in width, 3ft. above and 5! ft. below the water-line, with transversearmored bulkheads ; a 3-in. steel deck, and a strong pro-tective under-water deck before and abaft the belt. Abovethe belt the broadside guns are to be protected by 5 in. ofsteel armor, ft. in width. The turrets are to have 18in. and the barbettes 17 in. of compound armor. Afterall the criticism that has been indulged in at the expenseof the Italian Government for constructing the huge vesselsof the Italia type, England is now committed to the sameline—the new ships
. The railroad and engineering journal . e ship, 8i ft. in width, 3ft. above and 5! ft. below the water-line, with transversearmored bulkheads ; a 3-in. steel deck, and a strong pro-tective under-water deck before and abaft the belt. Abovethe belt the broadside guns are to be protected by 5 in. ofsteel armor, ft. in width. The turrets are to have 18in. and the barbettes 17 in. of compound armor. Afterall the criticism that has been indulged in at the expenseof the Italian Government for constructing the huge vesselsof the Italia type, England is now committed to the sameline—the new ships falling but little short of the ton-nage of that vessel. The cost of one of these new ships,including armament, will reach very nearly a millionpounds sterling. Next in importance are the belted or armored cruisers,the distribution of armor upon which is shown in fig. 6,representing the English snips of the Australia class,which may be taken as a type of the best of this type ofships. Here we have a water-line belt of 10 in. of
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