New War Ships. The Govanni Bausan which has been built by Arm strong & Co. for the Italian Government has com pleted the necessary trials and is about to leave Eng land for the Mediterranean. This vessel has been built generally after the design of the Esmeralda but is somewhat larger her length being 280 feet; breadth 42 feet; and draught 18% feet. Her displacement is about 3100 tons. The armored deck in this vessel is 14 inches thick. The armament consists of two 10-inch 25-ton breech-loading guns as bow and stern chasers six 6-inch 4-ton guns on the broadsides two 6-pounder rapid-firing guns and several Nordenfelt and Hotch kiss machine guns. What is described as a revolving turret is placed at each masthead; in each of these a machine gun will be placed. On the gun carriages steel shields are fixed for the protection of men against lighter missiles. There is a torpedo ejecting tube be neath the ram for the under-water discharge and two hydraulic crane for lifting boats and the steering gear trial which was made about a fortnight ag the vet sel was run at full speed for six hours forced draught being used all the time. The indicated horse power was about 6000 the revolutions averaged 65 per min ute and the speed was 17% knots per hour or about 20 After years of trial and experiment her Majesty's interesting vessel lately left Portsmouth Dockyard for a full power trial in the Solent. By means of forced tions a minute the boiler pressure was brought up to the standard of 0 pounds. The mean power of the engines discharging gear which gave so much trouble at first and the result has been that the Whiteheads can be recently been completed by Messrs. Samuda Brothers and lately ran a very successful series of trials off the Maplin. This vessel is of the same general description as the Riachuelo. The new vessel is 280 feet long and 52 feet wide the displacement being 5000 tons. The quired for service in the South American rivers. The frame is of the same material. The ma
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