. Review of reviews and world's work. $4,000,000 more for armor ami arma-mrnts, and 20 per cent, excess for spc<dand efficient construction. It will surprise the to hr told battleships will be 200 fert sliorl«-r 520 THE AMERICAN REVIEJF OF REVIEIFS the cruisers. The cruisers are longer, to givespace for the machinery to insure speed—also to permit sharper, speedier lines. Thearmor-belt will be eight inches thick, com-pared to the English cruisers nineinches thick. What the European gov-ernments have done in shipbuildingsince the war began is an impenetrablesecret;
. Review of reviews and world's work. $4,000,000 more for armor ami arma-mrnts, and 20 per cent, excess for spc<dand efficient construction. It will surprise the to hr told battleships will be 200 fert sliorl«-r 520 THE AMERICAN REVIEJF OF REVIEIFS the cruisers. The cruisers are longer, to givespace for the machinery to insure speed—also to permit sharper, speedier lines. Thearmor-belt will be eight inches thick, com-pared to the English cruisers nineinches thick. What the European gov-ernments have done in shipbuildingsince the war began is an impenetrablesecret; but before the war, Britishcruisers had a speed of thirty knots, a dis-placement of 28,500 tons, and a length of720 feet; German cruisers had a speed ofthirty knots, a displacement of 26,200 tons,and a length of 689 feet; Japanese cruisersa speed of twenty-seven knots, a displace-ment of 27,500 tons, and a length of 680feet. TREMENDOUS GUN-POWER Just here a lot of fine points come in navalconstruction that will interest the public. mi THE BIG 14-INCH GUNS ON THE PENNSYLVANIA more and more as naval development goes cruiser is for speed; the dreadnoughtfor invulnerable smashing power. Whenarmor-plating was invented, men said—hereis an end to gun power; but along came theinvention of bigger and bigger, and higherand higher velocity projectiles; and it be-came a race between the development of thebig gun and the development of jou can fire a projectile weighing2700 pounds from an 18-inch gun ten ortwelve miles at an initial velocity of, say2700 feet a second, any armor-plating knownto science is penetrated instantaneously. Inthe race the big gun won. So to evade thebig gun, the next tendency is not toclog speed with overweighted will be thinner, speed is one of the great lessons of the pres-ent war—the distance of range is increasing at a rate to beggar fancy. This simplymeans bigger and bigger guns with a fiercerp
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