Well, the book didn't come Friday, and it didn't come Saturday, so today I decided to work on some more ships. This is the Scout class of 1885. Called 'Torpedo Cruisers', they were the first attempt to make a seagoing torpedo boat. Later they were reclassified as '3rd Class Cruisers'.
The ships were about the size of a WW2 destroyer. While this makes them small compared to a battleship, alongside a locomotive they were huge. It's hard to look at a tiny model and remember that these ships were 225 feet long and displaced 1,600 tons.
