. American engineer and railroad journal . writing of this naval parade a distin-guished French authority comments onthe light protection given to the guns onmany of the cruisers. As to the armoredships, he comments on the fact that theirprotection in most cases is hardly sutii-cient to meet the attack of ships armedin the latest fashion with rapid-fire gunsof considerable caliber and firing shellswith high explosives. The heavily ar-mored vessels, like the English Sans-parfil and the Italian Dtiilio, are compar-atively slow and hard to manage in aseaway, while the no-ton guns of theSanspareil
. American engineer and railroad journal . writing of this naval parade a distin-guished French authority comments onthe light protection given to the guns onmany of the cruisers. As to the armoredships, he comments on the fact that theirprotection in most cases is hardly sutii-cient to meet the attack of ships armedin the latest fashion with rapid-fire gunsof considerable caliber and firing shellswith high explosives. The heavily ar-mored vessels, like the English Sans-parfil and the Italian Dtiilio, are compar-atively slow and hard to manage in aseaway, while the no-ton guns of theSanspareil would be almost useless ex-cept in calm weather. In other words,the limit of weight of armor which a shipcan carry has been about reached inthese great battle-ships, and it is still anopen question whether they can stand intight against a fleet of smaller but moreactive cruisers. Speed and ability tomaneuver may, after all, be the decidingpoints in a naval light, and the heavybattle-ship may be a useless encum-brance to her consorts. Thi
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