The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . red little fort. From here the pipesled down to the men behind the gun in the turrets,who thus received the instructions as to the nature ofthe fire which the enemy was to be entertained of the lessons to be learned from the war betweenChili and Peru was that the commanding officer shouldbe located in a safe place, and it was found that theworst possible place for him was near the base of thesmoke-stack, which was the best vertical target on thewhole ship. The conning-tower was therefore to comeof a necessity. But a ship
The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . red little fort. From here the pipesled down to the men behind the gun in the turrets,who thus received the instructions as to the nature ofthe fire which the enemy was to be entertained of the lessons to be learned from the war betweenChili and Peru was that the commanding officer shouldbe located in a safe place, and it was found that theworst possible place for him was near the base of thesmoke-stack, which was the best vertical target on thewhole ship. The conning-tower was therefore to comeof a necessity. But a ship is a huge mass of separateentities, and with so many guns aboard it became in-creasingly evident, as the Japanese War confirmed, thata gunnery officer should be told off* for the purposeof controlling and directing the firing from a higheraltitude. The fighting-top is now falling into desuetude,and the fire-control station is regarded as a position ofthe greatest importance. From his superior height thegunnery officer is able to tell how well or how badly 240.
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