Biene | 4 | 8 | 700 | 9 | Mücke | 4 | 8 | 700 | 9 | I 12-inch. Scorpion | 4 | 8 | 700 | 9 | Basilisk | 4 | 8 | 700 | 9 | Four others | 4 | 8 | 700 | 9 | ------------------------+-----+-----+-------+-----+--------------- River Monitors. | | | | | Rhein | 1¼ | 8 | 80 | 6 | II 4½-inch. Mosel | 1¼ | 8 | 80 | 6 | ------------------------+-----+-----+-------+-----+--------------- KAISER. DEUTSCHLAND. Armored belt, redoubt, and stern casemate. Ram bow and straight stern. The belt encircles the water-line, coming up to the height of the main-deck beams abaft the redoubt, but forward of it reduced in height to not over three feet above the water-line, and having a heavy steel deck at the height of its upper edge. The belt does not cover the ram. The sides forward and abaft the redoubt are given a rank tumble home, while the redoubt is carried straight up to the spar-deck beams, opening fore-and-aft and beam fire from the angular ports, (vide Devastation, French). The stern casemate prevents raking from aft, and also protects a stern-gun working in a single port. The engines and boilers form two distinct sets, one abaft the other, the magazines and shell-lockers coming between them. The redoubt has an overhang clear of the side of 3½ feet forward and 1½ feet aft. There is no bow-gun, the bow-fire coming from the redoubt. The after-redoubt guns only fire to within 15° of right astern, the stern-gun filling out the dead-angle. Single screw, full sail-power. [Illustration: KAISER.] FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE. PREUSSEN. Armored belt, breastwork, and two revolving turrets. These ships are built on the lines of the Monarch, although improved in detail. The belt encircles the water-line, but does not come as low down as the point of the ram. The breastwork surrounds the boilers and the bottoms of the turrets, but the engines are outside of and abaft it. The turrets are closer together than in the Monarch, and have no upper works to interfere with their fire. The dead-angles of the turret-guns are filled by a bow and stern-gun working in single unprotected ports. These ships have single screws and about three-quarter sail-power. [Illustration: PREUSSEN.] KÖNIG WILHELM. [Illustration: KÖNIG WILHELM.]