Naval Policy With Some Account of the Warships of the Principal Powers

G W George Warrington Steevens

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It is true that these guns would probably be fired with shell, at any rate early in an engagement, with the view of destroying the un- armoured parts of an enemy; but it would be always 164 RELATIVE STRENGTH possible, and doubtless sometimes profitable, to use shct, or shot and shell alternately, to break up such armour as was incapable of resisting their blows. In any case, ships that do not need heavy armour- piercing guns to pierce their armour are at a dis- advantage compared with those tha...t do. The thickness of armour which can be penetrated by the heaviest quick-firers, at close range, may be put roughly at 12 inches of wrought iron, 8 of compound armour, and 6 of steel hardened by the best known processes. The number of battleships for each Power that possess this qualification is the following : Battleships Invulnerable both on Side and Principal Gun-position to Large Quick-firers.
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1899 Britain • 36 • • 39 • •• 43 ... 46 France 29 .
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