Popular science monthly . Is it not fair to assume, nay. is it not certain,that if battlesliip displacement lias increasedfrom ten thousand tons in IS*6 to thirty-twothousand tons in 1916, that it will continue todo so until the limit has been readied? Whynot go the limit at once? By so doing we scrapthe battleships of every navy in the world. . .. Moffetts ship, shown behind the Pennsylvania and Oregon, is about as long as both vessels. The Thousand-Foot Battleship Commander Moffetts daring plan to beat the world HlTTINf. a target aflen wiilililtceii-iiicli guns seems so cas\ atask i
Popular science monthly . Is it not fair to assume, nay. is it not certain,that if battlesliip displacement lias increasedfrom ten thousand tons in IS*6 to thirty-twothousand tons in 1916, that it will continue todo so until the limit has been readied? Whynot go the limit at once? By so doing we scrapthe battleships of every navy in the world. . .. Moffetts ship, shown behind the Pennsylvania and Oregon, is about as long as both vessels. The Thousand-Foot Battleship Commander Moffetts daring plan to beat the world HlTTINf. a target aflen wiilililtceii-iiicli guns seems so cas\ atask in \icw of the naval battlesfonglil olT the Doggc-r Hank and Jutlandtliat Admiral Sir C\i)rian Hridge of theHritisli Na\y, maintains tiiat it is in-advisable to build warships bigger thantliosc now in commission. CommanilerWilliam Adger MotTctt of our own Navy,takes direct issue with him, arguing thatthe whole tendency in warship construc-tion from the days of the sailing frigateto the modern super-dreadnought hasbeen toward the large ship wilii guns, lie boliily advocates a vesselmore than twice as large as any battlc-sliip hitherto constructed—a veritableTitan of the seas. In an article iiublished in Sea Power,ComnKinder MolTett points out that onlythe size of the locks of ihe Panama Canallimits the size of battleships. Thatlimit
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