Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1895 — THE MAGNIFECENT. [ARTICLE]

THE MAGNIFECENT.

‘ • 5 Launched at Cbatbam. L. Examples^ speejl witlj which paXile«.hips of he buitji jn dockyards are _ furnished'fey and : ‘hflioste* ihan twelvemonths igb?‘TSh pifideoHswith afll atWdr plating ph. heF boilersfitted and a gobd deal Pfher on ' board, Avill be y.oated odt dt her dock to-day, exWtly i;year after 'she* Isf • Chatham. The Majestic is only in p littlg less'forward state, haying been begun las t 'February at Portsjnouth. Both ships have beaten the record irt rapidity of coustruction. This will soon be in turn beaten by the speed with which two more battleships. the Powerful and the Terrible, are being built by private contract on the Clyde, at Birkenhead. The naval scare will, result in five iirst class battleships’ being j-eady for coin m ission next year, which ordinarily would not be f ni died within fit least eighteen‘mbn|fis longer. . The names of these four vessels pledge something- above the ordina-;. Ty, and, although naval (lure is often somewhat misleading, Us when Migonette and Snowdrop, in bur own service, werorth© christenings of smoky steam tugs, yet no doubt these British ships will"be exceptional. The Majestic and Magnificent are perhaps rather the more powerful amrtiirrible pair, while the other two promise to be very striking and imposing in appearance, so they might have exchanged names: The Majestic and Magnificent.’ first Bliss' battleships, are ’the heaviest of : f heir type m -the world; They 1 are iq.be BIX) feet long by 75 feet extreme beam, and27i feetmeau draft., gj ying a d Is.piacemeo t.of- tbns. 1-, TTOigh cTas§, ~ Ihey arq, yp.t' wprovejTcifik bn tkh' fiT certain parhelating'\te J fh^ ( ’ha'tfarjes. V fid-i’ i-tW ii ew- qitfl-fey w 1 rfa|n d, ivliichiiafc AnOFe thh’Olibiigh'OT 'the* iHO 4fflE’«iori4tet , sr?ttiß tiarified < wßhho. ithe 4Sslrtm’Wtbnte* d‘Sf¥*» qtwbish t'Wmw-Ul’HbeifaQoimited 1 wwg’ tfem Isf i re. Hitch'gjuw, 'fehibhcUWo liiwil an; cbdtitalr vprotgotati wife hr.: r-Xf id, TbBV-WVihl tl«m : m < Wd,“ in eaa*. kpeeflsafiU- blgW'4iSilr§-ldl' •> j e otandswhallMcqoiMG awitlb hhd«tiitali" f Aauglrkaloa e,.aMjehoeairly orrqait© a cjot mqro 7 .fyiljhi» ! UujiMl(degree ;df'QEced:draugh^ >a , ; .i<. to ’