. The railroad and engineering journal . pes and ^\ the horizontal part. The coal bunkers are arranged to giveprotection above and below the water-line. The engines are designed to give out 12,000 indicated forced draft and 7,500 with natural draft, the re-spective calculated speeds being 20 and 18 knots per hour. Thearmament will consist of two guns and twelve 6-in. armored bulkheads of 14 in. thickness. The top edges of theport and starboard belt will be joined by a flat horizontal steeldeck 3 in. thick. At this point the ship may be likened to a shallow box or tr
. The railroad and engineering journal . pes and ^\ the horizontal part. The coal bunkers are arranged to giveprotection above and below the water-line. The engines are designed to give out 12,000 indicated forced draft and 7,500 with natural draft, the re-spective calculated speeds being 20 and 18 knots per hour. Thearmament will consist of two guns and twelve 6-in. armored bulkheads of 14 in. thickness. The top edges of theport and starboard belt will be joined by a flat horizontal steeldeck 3 in. thick. At this point the ship may be likened to a shallow box or trayof armor placed bottom up, the sides dipping below the water-level and the inverted bottom consisting of the steel deck. Be-yond the ends of the citadel so formed the vessel is not pro-tected by vertical armor at all, the only protection being a deck wrought below the water-line. Above the citadelalready described, and at the extreme ends, are placed the twobarbettes. These are pear-shaped structures heavily armored Fig. Fig- 7-AUXILIARY OR RESERVE CRUISER EMPRESS OF INDIA. guns, and a number of small rapid-fire guns. The coal endur-ance will be 10 000 knots at ten-knot speed. The Royal Sovereign is the largest battleship yet built ; thegeneral arrangement of guns and armor is shown on the ac-companying diagram, figs. 4 and 5. She carries her heavy arma-ment en barbette, and is propelled by twin screws. The lengthis 3S0 ft., the breadth 75 ft., and the displacement is calculatedat tons. The engines are designed to exert about witli natural draft, and the corresponding speedwill be about 16 knots per hour. With forced draft the horse-power is put down at 13,000 indicated, and the correspondingspeed is estimated at 17^ knots. The estimated speeds, itshould be stated, are those with the ship fully laden. The radius of action, or coal endurance, at speed of 10 knots,is to be 5,000 knots ; at a speed of 16 knots, i,Soo knots. vertically, b
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