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Scientific American, Vol. 100, No. 8 (February 1909) (1909)

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uns of 11-inch bore is sufficient, after the gun and 50 calibers length the is loaded, to bring it into heaviest broadside of any battery above the parapet. of the "Dreadnoughts"— The gun is brought back the heaviest, at least, in and down to the loading the total number of large position by the… … ergy of 47,299 foot tons. recoil; gun swinging back and down to the loading position. The So much for a compari- If it strikes a normal blow son of the fighting strength (a blow at right angles to of the navies of the world OUR SYSTEM OF SEAC0AS1 FORTIFICATIONS. the plate) it can penetrate based…

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