[Illustration: AFFONDATORE.] Double-turreted monitor ram. High-sided, with half sail-power and superstructures forward and abaft the turrets. Armored belt enclosing the water-line to the upper-deck beams. Long ram bow, continued up and forming a topgallant forecastle nearly as high as the top of the turret. Musket-proof superstructure surrounding the engine-room. Stern-frames carried up to form a spar-deck cabin. No fore-and-aft fire. Single screw. This vessel was the Italian flag-ship at the Battle of Lissa. ITALIAN UNARMORED FLEET. (RAPID CRUISERS.) ======================+===============+=========+============ TYPE AND NAME. | Displacement. | Maximum | BATTERY. | | Speed. | ----------------------+---------------+---------+------------ | Tons. | Knots. | 2d Class Corvettes. Cristoforo Colombo | 2,500 | 16.2 | V 4¾-inch. Staffetta | 1,485 | 12.5 | V 3-inch. Rapido | 1,426 | 11.8 | ----------------------+---------------+---------+------------- Gun-boats. Agostin | 650 | 17 | Barbarigo | 650 | 17 | II 4¾-inch. Marcantonio | 650 | 17 | Colonna | 650 | 17 | ----------------------+---------------+---------+------------ Torpedo Vessels. Pietro Micca | 512 | 14.5 | Seb. Verniero | 512 | | Torpedoes. And. Provano | 512 | | ----------------------+---------------+---------+------------ ITALIAN GENERAL-SERVICE FLEET. (OLD-TYPE STEAM CRUISERS.)