Abstract
THE twentieth session of the Institution of Naval Architects has now been brought to a close. The meeting, with Lord Hampton in the chair, was held at the house of the Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi, and was well attended throughout. One of the latest developments in ship-building is shown in the paper on “The Structural Arrangements and Proportions of H.M.S. Iris,” by W. H. White, Assistant-Constructor of the Navy. The construction of the Iris marks a new era in the British Navy, being the first vessel built wholly of steel; she is an unarmoured dispatch vessel, specially designed for high speed and great coal endurance. Her principal dimensions are: length between perpendiculars, 300 feet, breadth, extreme, 46 feet, mean load draught, 19 feet 9 inches, displacement, 3,735 tons.
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