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 . ly, battle-ships had carried a main battery of four heavy guns in turrets foreand aft, and rows of lighter guns along each side. The AmericanConnecticut, of 16,000 tons, armed with four twelve-inch, eighteight-inch and twelve seven-inch guns, is a fine example of the earliertype. The Dreadnought ushered in the all-big-gun ship, carryingall heavy guns o
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 . ly, battle-ships had carried a main battery of four heavy guns in turrets foreand aft, and rows of lighter guns along each side. The AmericanConnecticut, of 16,000 tons, armed with four twelve-inch, eighteight-inch and twelve seven-inch guns, is a fine example of the earliertype. The Dreadnought ushered in the all-big-gun ship, carryingall heavy guns of uniform size in turrets on the deck, and a secondaryarmament of light guns for repelling torpedo craft. The dread-noughts are supposed to be so far superior to vessels of the older type 87 88 WAR-SHIPS AND NAVAL IMPLEMENTS (pre-dreadnoughts, as they are termed) as to render them obsoletefor use in the first line of battle. The present war may put to thetest this famous controversy as well as many others that have raged innaval circles. The small battle-ship, \/ith few guns, has always hadits advocates. In sjiite of hostile criticism, however, all the naval powers havebeen active in the construction of monster battle-ships, until we now. Battle-ship Neptune—King George, Admiral Callaghan and the Prince of Wales on Deck have a new class of superdreadnoughts. England, in fact, hasoutdone the superdreadnought and with lier Queen Klizabeth andher four sister-ships (some of which may be completed in time to fig-ure in this war, as they are due for 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 DREA
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