The Nation's Navy, Our Ships And Their Achievements
The Nation's Navy, Our Ships And Their Achievements
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This is of steel and extends from stem to stern of the vessel, its thickness being nine inches amidship, from which it tapers to five inches at the ends. The armor-belt is seven feet in width, reaching to a depth of three feet below the water and upward to the main deck, which stands four feet above the water-line. The deck is of if-inch steel, overlaid with wood. The delay in finishing this and its sister vessels has proved to their advantage, in enabling them to be completed in the most appro...ved manner and with the advantage of all recent improve- ments in guns and armor. Thus the two turrets and the barbettes from which they rise are plated with Harveyized steel, which is eleven and one-half inches in thickness on the barbettes and seven and one-half on the turrets, the latter having roofs of ij-inch steel.
The technical terms here employed call for some explanation. In recent ships the gun-bearing turrets do not rise from the lower deck, as in the old monitors, but descend into circular shields of steel, to which has been given the French title of barbette, already de- scribed, and which protect the lower section of the turrets and contain the apparatus for their revolution.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This is of steel and extends from stem to stern of the vessel, its thickness being nine inches amidship, from which it tapers to five inches at the ends. The armor-belt is seven feet in width, reaching to a depth of three feet below the water and upward to the main deck, which stands four feet above the water-line. The deck is of if-inch steel, overlaid with wood. The delay in finishing this and its sister vessels has proved to their advantage, in enabling them to be completed in the most appro...ved manner and with the advantage of all recent improve- ments in guns and armor. Thus the two turrets and the barbettes from which they rise are plated with Harveyized steel, which is eleven and one-half inches in thickness on the barbettes and seven and one-half on the turrets, the latter having roofs of ij-inch steel.
The technical terms here employed call for some explanation. In recent ships the gun-bearing turrets do not rise from the lower deck, as in the old monitors, but descend into circular shields of steel, to which has been given the French title of barbette, already de- scribed, and which protect the lower section of the turrets and contain the apparatus for their revolution.
What to read after The Nation's Navy, Our Ships And Their Achievements?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Morris Charles to read onlineMoreLess
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