994

ITALY

Armour

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CQ

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Max. speed.

1SS7

1894 1897

1901

^Re Umberto <Sard.egna. . (Sicilia

(A. di Saint-Bou \B. Filiberto .

/Benedetto Brin (Regina Margherita

(Vittorio Emanuele Regina Elena . Napoli Roma

Pre-Dreadnoughts.

13,893

13,860 • 4 13,298 J

9,800 10

I f

1 13,427 6 i 12,025 10

14

10

8

4 13"5in.; 8 Gin., 10 4-7in.

4 lOin.; 8 Oin., 8 4 7in.

4 12in.; 4 8in.; 12 6in.

2 12in.; 12 Sin.

,1

19,000] 18 17,490 19-5 17,621 19

14,296 13,552

20,475 19,822

19,000 19,298 19,000 20,000

17

21

22-0

Ai^moured Oruisera.

1890

Marco Polo

4,583

4

_ .

6 6in.; 10 4-7in.

4

10,613

17T,

ison i/Vettor Pisani . ^®-^" \Carlo Alberto .

1 6,500

6

12 6in.; 6 4-7in.

4

13,219

18

(G. Garibaldi 1897 KVarese

[F. Ferruccio .

[ 7,350

6

...

1 lOin.; 2 Sin.; 14 6in.

'(

14,713 13,885 13,035

J 20

1904

/S. Giorgio Is. Marco .

IPisa ....

/ 9,833

lio,iis

}^

6^

4 lOin.; 8 7 'Sin.

■1

18,000 20,000 19,000 19,000

i 22-5

The personnel consists of 1,927 officers (comprising 1 admiral, 25 vice- aud rear-admirals, 216 captains and commanders, 418 lieutenants 237 sub- lieutenants and midshipmen, 108 engineer-constructors, 312 engineers, 210 sanitary officers, 243 commissariat officers, 157 officers of the Oor]^ Reale Equipaggi) ; and 27,030 men (sailors, gunners, mechanicians, &c. ). Both naval and military officers are attached indifferently to the aerial service.

Production and Industry. I. Agriculture.

The systems of cultivation in Italy may be reduced to three : — 1. The system of peasant proprietorship (coltivazione per economia o a mano propria) ; 2. That of partnership (colonia parziaria) : 3. That of rent (affitto). Peasant proprietorship is most common in Piedmont and Liguria, but is found in many other parts of Italy. The system of partnership or colonia parziaria, more especially in the form of mezzadria, consists in a form of partnership between the proprietor and the cultivator. This system is general in Tuscany, the Marches, and TJmbria. It is almost unknown in the Basilicata, little practised in Apulia, Calabria, and Sardinia, and has been entirely abandoned in the two most advanced centres of cultivation in the south, viz. : — Barese and the province of Naples. Various modifications of the system exist in different parts of Italy. The system of rent (affitto) exists in Lombardyand Venetia.

Large farms (la grande coltura) exist in the neighbourhood of Yercelli,

Pavia, Milan, Cremona, Chioggia, Ferrara, Grosseto, Rome, Caserta, and in