+-----------------+-------+---------+------+--------+------------------+ | |Displa-|Indicated| | | Principal | | NAME OF SHIP. |cement.| Horse- |Speed.| Armor. | Armament. | | | | power. | | | | +-----------------+-------+---------+------+--------+------------------+ | | Tons.| |Knots.| | Guns | |Vladimir Monomach| 5800 | 7000 | 15.4 | 7-inch.| 4 of 9 tons.| |Dmitri Donsköi | 5800 | 7000 | 16.25| 7-inch.| [35]3 ” 29 ” | |Admiral Nachimoff| 7780 | 8000 | 16 |10-inch.| 8 ” 9 ” | |Alexander Nevsky | 7572 | 8000 | 16 |10-inch.| 8 ” 9 ” | |Emperor Nicholas | 8000 | 8000 | 16 |10-inch.| 2 ” 40 ” | +-----------------+-------+---------+------+--------+------------------+ The only fast armored cruisers of the Baltic fleet are the _Rynda_ and _Vitias_, of 2950 tons, 3500 horse-power, and 15 knots speed; and another, the _Admiral Korniloff_, now being completed at Nantes, to be much larger and faster. Among torpedo-vessels there is the twin-screw steel _Iljin_, of 600 tons, which has steamed 20 knots, and carries 19 machine guns; another, of only 140 tons, but to steam 20 knots, has been built at Glasgow; and a third, of like size, but of 17 knots, at St. Petersburg. The torpedo-boats of the Russian navy are given in the Parliamentary Return as below: BALTIC TORPEDO-BOATS. _Completed_: 4 over 100 feet in length; 74 over 70 feet in length; 20 under 70 feet in length. _Completed and building_: 6 over 100 feet in length, of which 4 are over 150 feet long—total, 104. BLACK SEA TORPEDO-BOATS. _Completed_: 5 over 100 feet in length; 8 over 70 feet in length; 6 under 70 feet in length. _Completed and building_: 7 over 100 feet in length—total, 26. Russia has also a volunteer fleet consisting of ten vessels of no great fighting value; a Siberian flotilla comprising nine gun-boats and other small craft; a Caspian flotilla of seven small vessels; and an Aral flotilla of still less moment. In the German armored navy four citadel vessels figure as having the heaviest (16-inch) armor, but these are of that objectionable _Sachsen_ type to which I previously adverted. In order to let the reader see under what slight pretexts some people are prepared to regard ships as powerful iron-clads, I give engravings which represent the Sachsen in side view and in plan, these illustrations being taken from _Captain_ J. F. von Kronenfels’s “Das Schwimmende Flottenmaterial der Seemächte.” The shaded portion in the middle exhibits the extent of this ship’s armor; the long white ends are left to depend upon walls of cork, etc., which are very poor—nay, almost imaginary—defences against the effects of explosive shells.