Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock. Partly reprinted from "Engineering" (1920)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : Offices of "Engineering," 35 and 36, Beford Street, W.C.". · leaf 124
ion. In thelatest ships the angle is 25° to 30° from the horizontal, whichincreased the range by 40 to 50 per cent, as compared with gunshaving a 15° to 20° elevation. This, however, involved problemsin horizontal protection in ship design to which reference will bemade in our chapter on Work for… … CDO t-3 P CO i—i P «O P PiPo CO>H H CO W W Guns versus Armour. 63 wrought iron plates were increased from 4|-in. in thicknesson the Warrior of 186.1, to 24-in. on the Inflexible of 1881 ;the area protected being almost proportionately reduced.The artillerist with improved projectiles ultimately…
