. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A STUDENT OF NAVIGATION. 140 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. ries eight guns, has two turrets, and lier iron plating at the water-hne isfourteen inches thick. She is three hundred and thirty feet long and six-ty feet wide in her broadest part, and resembles the great mastless shipsof the British navy, particularly those of the Dreadnought class. She wasbuilt at Cronstadt, in 1874; the other and larger ships I have named areon the
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A STUDENT OF NAVIGATION. 140 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. ries eight guns, has two turrets, and lier iron plating at the water-hne isfourteen inches thick. She is three hundred and thirty feet long and six-ty feet wide in her broadest part, and resembles the great mastless shipsof the British navy, particularly those of the Dreadnought class. She wasbuilt at Cronstadt, in 1874; the other and larger ships I have named areon the ways at Sevastopol and Nicolaieff, on the Black STEAM FRIGATE NEAR CRONSTADT. Without going into details, I will say that the Kussian navy consistsof two great divisions: the fleet of the Baltic and the fleet of the BlackSea. Each of these great divisions is subdivided into sections: the Balticfleet into three, and the Black Sea fleet into two. The sections carry flagsof different colors, Mdiite, blue, and red ; this arrangement was taken fromthe Dutch, like the system of ship-building in Peters time. At the beginning of 1885 the Baltic fleet consisted of two hundredand nine vessels, including thirty-three armor-clad and belted ships, forty-nine unarmored frigates, corvettes, clippers, and cruisers, and ninety-fivetorpedo-boats. Gun-boats, transports, and various other craft completedthe list. The Black Sea fleet included ninety-eight vessels, of which sevenwere armor-clad; then there are the vessels of the Caspian Sea and theSiberian flotillas; and altogether the Russian navy comprised at that time358 vessels, armed with 671 guns,
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