The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . completion in October, 1914, andearly in 1915), she has begun a new era in battle-ship Queen Elizabeth is 650 feet long and will displace 27,500 tons.(The displacement of a ship is its dead weight, so called because afloating body displaces a volume of water equal to its own must not be confused with the tonnage of a merchant
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . completion in October, 1914, andearly in 1915), she has begun a new era in battle-ship Queen Elizabeth is 650 feet long and will displace 27,500 tons.(The displacement of a ship is its dead weight, so called because afloating body displaces a volume of water equal to its own must not be confused with the tonnage of a merchant ship whichis an entirely different measurement.) She will be protected by a belt DREADNOUGHTS 89 of 13l/>-inch armor on her water line and 10 inches on her middle guns will be protected by 14-inch turrets. As with all battle-ships, parts of her bow and stern are unarmored, since it is not pos-sible for a ship to carry the weight of a complete suit of armor. Shehas the extreme speed of 25 knots. (The English Admiraltj knot is6,080 feet, or about 1^/j miles. A speed of 25 knots means about 29land miles an hour.) Hjer eight 15-inch guns give her the most power-ful armament ever mounted on a warship. She will carry an auxiliary. German Battle-Cruiser Moltke battery of 16 6-inch guns and—a significant sign of the times—123-inch anti-aeroplane guns. Five 21-inch torpedo-tubes complete herarmament. Her 58,000-horse-power turbine engines, driving fourscrews, will be supplied with steam by oil-burning boilers. Such is thelast word in naval construction at the time of the present Europeanstruggle. She will cost about $13,000,000. Battle-ship Cruisers.—A recent development in naval constructionis the battle-ship cruiser, or battle-cruiser, in which armor is sacri-ficed to speed. These shijjs are classed as dreadnoughts and arealmost as heavily armed as battle-ships of that class. The EnglishTiger represents the extreme development of this extraordinaryclass of ships. Sh
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