Modern ships of war by Sir Edward J. Reed and Edward Simpson
9. Twenty steel steam-launches of from 30 to 35 tons displacement,
built on the life-boat system, and fitted with triple-expansion
engines, to drive the boats from 12 to 14 knots per hour.
The cost of the new fleet will be:
For new vessels 189,900,000 Pesetas.
For completing vessels now building 22,600,000 ”
For arsenals 10,000,000 ”
For submarine defence 2,500,000 ”
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Total 225,000,000[46] ”
When these vessels are finished Spain will have the following fleet:
NEW VESSELS. PRESENT VESSELS.
Armor-clad 1 Armor-clads 2
First-class cruisers 12 First-class cruisers 6
Second-class cruisers 13 Second-class cruisers 16
Torpedo gun-boats 32 Smaller vessels 37
First-class torpedo-boats 100 ---
Second-class torpedo-boats 50 Total afloat 61
Steam-launches 20 To be constructed 229
Arsenal transport 1 ---
--- Grand total of fleet 290
Total 229
In the _Reina Regente_ the Spanish government expects to have the
fastest cruiser afloat. Her keel was laid in the Thompson’s Yard
at Clydebank on June 11, 1886, and she was launched February 24,