Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 55
peed of the latter class of ship. The British Good Hope and Monmouth, sunkby the Germans off the coast of Chili in Novem-ber, were armored cruisers; so were the twoGerman ships Sclidruliorst and Gneisenau, sentto the bottom by Admiral Sturdees battle-cruisersin December last off the Falkland… … THE U. S. PROTECTED CRUISER CHARLESTON. armored belt outside, which of course is a muchlighter defense than that of the armored cruiser. The main object of war-ship designers, whendealing with armor, is to protect what is calledthe vitals of the ship—to so shield the craftthat its engines, its…
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