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Title: Annual report of the Secretary of the Navy
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: United States. Navy Dept.
Subjects: United States. Navy--Periodicals United States. Navy Dept.--Periodicals
Publisher: Washington : Government Printing Office
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
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on of the galley in the small ships,which either makes the berth-deck uninhabitable, or under the topgallantforecastle is either in the way of chains and hammocks, or is in constantdanger of being washed out. In comparing this shij) with the Duguay-Trouin, it will, I think, be found that for convoy, blockade, or commerce-destroying work, the batteries are of about equal ser\ice, the advantageto the Trouin being oidy found in fleet fighting or fortification attack,Avhile the ex))ense of building and cost of maintenance in comnnssion ina fleet during peace scarcely, I think, warrant their construction. SECOND-CLASS CRUISER.Type : Laperouse, DEstaing, Monge, Nielly. Length between perpendiculars 262.4 feet. Outside beam at water-line 37.4 feet. Mean load-draught 17 feet. l)is))lacement 2,200 tons. Area of immersed midship section 433.7 s((uare feet. Power developed by engines 2,500 lutrse-power. Maxinnim ftpeed 15.5 knots. Coal supply 400 tons. Distance attainable at 10 knots 4,000 uuUs.
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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. »1 S;iil Slllfilcf l:?,l)HH s I. Xiimhcr nf crew •JJO umii. Ilatt«iy: (i-ii-ii> i ■ )i-iii iiuuiids shell. KH(cti\t ian,i;f aiiaiusl mianiioicd slii)is 5,r)U0 yards. Fire abeam : Nninlier ot iiiiiis H. AVei;;lit nt metal thrown ^yW^J) i>oinnls shell. Fire astern : Nnmher ol ^nns 1. Weio-ht of metal tlirown 4(>.5 poumls shell. Heinht of liattery above AvatiT-line Til is tyi)e is the eouuterpart of the YilUirs, except that with a slightlyless (lisi)la(tMnent she has finer lines, a rani-bow, and carries her bow-jiuiis on tlie t())>,on for all future small ships. The bow-^uns, it will be noti(*e<l,are cellter-pi^()ts; this is now the rule of the French navy for all

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