Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 118
in. beam, and having a draught of25 ft. ; while the Defence is a vessel of 14,600 tons displace-ment, having a length of 490 ft., a beam of 74 ft. 6 in.,and a draught of 26 ft. In both ships the greater partof the broadside, from 5 ft. below the water-line to theupper deck, is armoured, and a very… … i-ltA CD O CD {25 fc w o Gun Power of Cruisers. 61 In the late nineties it was assumed that quick-firingartillery was best suited to the work of a cruiser, andthus the 6-in. gun was exclusively adopted. But sincethen Naval strategists have developed their ideas as tothe function of armoured…
