Excerpt from The Nautical Magazine and Journal of the Royal Naval Reserve, Vol. 61: July 1892 The programme includes the construction of three new battle-ships, which, if we may judge by the First Lord's statement, will be improved Royal Sovereigns, in which particular attention will be paid to speed and coal capacity. The maximum speed is to be 19 knots. Our new eight first class battle-ships, of which the Royal Sovereign is typical, are, in nearly every respect, perfect so far as our present knowledge goes. They embody the ideas of those who will have to fight them, and so fulfil the condition of being satisfactory weapons. These vessels are, indeed, the embodiment of strength and beauty. Their under-water sections are simply lovely. Some thing similar to these are the two second-class battle-ships Centurion and Barfieur - these vessels are smaller and less heavily armoured. All these ten vessels are, in their leading features, alike; that is, they have a flush upper-deck and a high freeboard, great speed, and considerable coal endurance the former being 17 knots under forced draught, with storage for 900 tons in the first-class, and 750 tons in the second-class. Their great defect is that they could not maintain full speed for arun from Plymouth to Gibraltar, because their coal would be exhausted. The Centurion and Barfleur are, however, capable of keeping the sea on distant stations, being wood-sheathed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.