Armored belt and double-decked redoubt. Swan-breasted bow strengthened for ramming, pointed stern, single screw, full sail-power. The belt encircles the water-line to the height of the main-deck. The main-deck redoubt is short and does not give fore-and-aft fire, the ship being wall-sided. The upper-deck redoubt, rising a little above the spar-deck rail, is octagonal, to permit angular ports for fore-and-aft and beam fire. The spar-deck rail is carried inboard parallel to the keel to open the angular ports. ARMINIUS. [Illustration: ARMINIUS.] Double-turreted monitor, with ram bow and no overhang. Light flying deck, single screw. (American type modified.) PRINZ ADALBERT. Armored belt, double redoubt. Long ram bow, round stern, single screw, half sail-power. The belt encircles the water-line to the height of the upper deck. The curve of the ram bow is carried up, forming a spar-deck redoubt, giving protection to a single heavy bow-gun working in one port. A second redoubt, well aft, gives protection to two guns, each working in two ports for fore-and-aft and beam fire. A superstructure aft cuts off the stern-fire from these guns, and the forward redoubt cuts off the bow-fire. The shape of both of the redoubts is nearly circular. The Stonewall (Confederate) belonged to this type. (Sister ships.) [Illustration: PRINZ ADALBERT.] WESPE. VIPER. BIENE. MÜCKE. SCORPION. BASILISK. RHEIN. MOSEL. (Four others not yet named.) Small, light-draft, armored gun-boats. All except the Rhein and Mosel have an armored belt and a horseshoe-shaped traverse, giving protection to the crew of a single barbette gun, which gives only bow-fire. They are provided with rams. The Rhein and Mosel are light-draft monitors, similar to the Austrian Danube gun-boats. (See Austrian Danube monitors.) The Wespe class belongs to the English Staunch and the French Farcy type. GERMAN UNARMORED FLEET. (FAST CRUISERS.) ====================+===============+=========+============== TYPE AND NAME. | Displacement. | Maximum | BATTERY. | | Speed. | --------------------+---------------+---------+----------------- | Tons. | Knots. | Iron Gun-deck Corvettes. Leipsic | 3,863 | 16 | XII 6¾-inches. Bismarck | 3,863 | 16 | +---------------+---------+--------------- Blücher | 2,460 | 15 | Stosch | 2,460 | 15 | Moltke | 2,460 | 15 | XVI 5¾-inches. Sedan | 2,460 | 15 | One other | 2,460 | 15 | --------------------+---------------+---------+--------------- Wooden Gun-deck Corvettes. Freya | 1,954 | 14½ | Louise | 1,665 | 14 | II 6¾-inch, Ariadne | 1,665 | 13 | VI 5¾-inch.