. Le journal de chemin de fer et d'ingénierie . d 3 in. À la couronne. Ce pont sera de i ft. Au-dessus de la ligne de l'eau amidships et SLO]) à 5 ft. Au-dessous de l'eau à ihesides. La maison pilote, les chauves-munitions, etc., vont protéger, tandis que les quatre ruilles de 8 in. De sa chauve-souris principale seront montées dans des tourelles de Lo-in. barbette, et les canons de la batterie secondaire seront derrière des boucliers d'une épaisseur moyenne de 4 in. Les trois navires de bataille, dont la construction le sec-retaire de la Marine a invité jjjroposals dans les 24 heures après l'approbation de la colline de .appropriation par le Président, sera, quand fin

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. The railroad and engineering journal . d 3 in. at the crown. This deck will be i ft. above thewater-line amidships and slo])e to 5 ft. below water at ihesides. The pilot-house, ammunition-hoists, etc., will bewell protecleil, while the four 8-in. rilles of her main bat-tery are to be mounted in lo-in. barbette turrets, and theguns of the secondary battery will be behind shields of anaverage thickness of 4 in. The three battle-ships, for whose construction the Sec-retary of the Navy invited jjroposals within 24 hours afterthe approval ot the .Appropriation Hill by the President, will, when finished, compare very favorably, in armoredprotection and in armament, if not in tonnage, with thelatest constructions in foreign services. The Act of Con-gress, under whose provisions these vessels are to be built, says, that the l^resident is authorized to have constructedby contract three sea-going coast-line battle-ships, de-signed to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ord-nance upon a displacement of about 8, 500 tons . . and. this type in having a turtle-back deck, and by an arrange-ment of tanks into which water can be admitted, so thather cruising freeboard may, for action, be reduced 3 ft.The arched deck of steel will have a thickness of 3 in. atthe crown, turning downward at the sides to 4 ft. below thefighting-line, and increasing in thickness to 4i in. at theedges. The two lo-in. guns of her main battery will bemounted in a lo-in. roller-base turret. The base of tfleturret will have the further protection of a fi.ed breast-work o( the same thickness. An elliptical Inilkhead oflo-in. armor, rising from the armor-deck, affords protec-tion to the air-pipes, ventilators and ash-hoists. A steelshield will protect her single 6-in. rille. A secondarybattery of rapid-fire guns with a 15-in. pneumatic dynamilegun, and two under-water torpedo-tubes, for firing tor-pedoes by gunpowder impulse, will complete her arma-ment. The armored cruiser, which with her 8, 100 tons dis

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