. Naval power in the war (1914-1917). 1916. .Flandre 24,828 [12 1916. .Gascogne 24,828 1917 . Beam 24,828 J As will be seen from the plans of the Normandiegiven in Fig. 14, the French have three turrets alignedover the keel—but with four guns in each turret. Noother navy has adopted this arrangement of guns. TheFrench have always designed and built good battleships—and French ships have been of great use in the Medi-terranean and elsewhere. It is now known that equalityin heavy artillery on the western battle front was onlyestablished by use of the French naval guns (Fig. 15). I
. Naval power in the war (1914-1917). 1916. .Flandre 24,828 [12 1916. .Gascogne 24,828 1917 . Beam 24,828 J As will be seen from the plans of the Normandiegiven in Fig. 14, the French have three turrets alignedover the keel—but with four guns in each turret. Noother navy has adopted this arrangement of guns. TheFrench have always designed and built good battleships—and French ships have been of great use in the Medi-terranean and elsewhere. It is now known that equalityin heavy artillery on the western battle front was onlyestablished by use of the French naval guns (Fig. 15). In auxiliaries of the battle fleet France is wellequipped. Her submarines in particular are known to bevery good, although, as has been the case with the BritishNavy, there has not been much chance to use them. THE JAPANESE NAVY The strength of the Japanese Navy in the first essen-tials in the known building programme is as follows: JAPANESE NAVY—BUILT AND BUILDING Dreadnoughts 6 Predreadnought battleships 13 Battle cruisers 4. FIG. 15—FRENCH NAVAL GUN AT WESTERN APPENDIX 183 The recent building programme, so far as known, isas follows: DREADNOUGHTS Compd Displace- Speed in— Name ment Armament Knots •Kawachi 20,800 1 jj^ . Settsu 20,800 I -^ . Fu-So 30,600 .Yamashiro ^^ . Ise 30,600 I . Hinga 30,600 J BATTLE CRUISERS 1 8 T. inch / ^^^ 27,500 f »i4-incn ^ ^ 1014- Kirishima 27,500 \ o , . in^t, 27,500/ » 191219121915101619161917 The first two dreadnoughts have the arrangement ofthe turrets of the German Helgoland class (Fig. 2).The four dreadnoughts of the Fu-So class (Fig. 16) areformidable battleships which have followed the designof the U. S. S. Arkansas (Fig. 12). As a matter ofcourse Japan, like the other nations at war, has givenout no naval information since she entered the war. Un-doubtedly there has been a great increase of the Japanesebuilding programme, but it is
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