CASTELLAMARE ary ship-building yard, furnished with improvised sheds, necessary machinery, tools, and appliances for iron shippurchased in order to be used in the construction of the SPEZIA. ard at Spezia, on the Bay of this name, is, in common alian naval-yards, known as the arsenal. It has been laid le of great magnitude, and is intended as the principal Already about $10,000,000 have been expended on the may now be ranked among the most important of the ablishments of Europe. The accompanying drawing shows riginally designed. It is intended that there should be g-slips and ten dry-docks; but only two of the slips and four have been completed. The large basin for construction was designed to be 443 feet long and 80 feet wide at the feet 8 inches at the invert. This basin has only been comlf of its length. The adjoining fitting-out basin is 360 feet and 72 feet 9 inches and 55 feet 9 inches wide. In addition leted basin there are two smaller ones. The basins and aptied by means of two turbines driven by two 150-horsees. A small pump is also kept constantly at work to reiting water. The buildings completed are of one story, exone containing the offices and mold-lofts. These buildings. S: machine, boiler, and smith shops, foundery, forges, steamIdings, temporary iron ship-building shop and framing-shop, eshops, artillery-shops, store-houses, sail-stores, torpedospecial stores. The machinery and tools and system of appliances are as yet incomplete. wing table contains the principal dimensions of the Italian et now afloat and in process of building: |