STRAMSHIPS AND THIER STORY

12-inch guns 12-pounders Admiralty adopted afloat American amidships armament armour armour-plate armoured cruisers artillery attack barbettes battery battle battleships beam belt boilers breech-loading British Navy broadside built bulkheads canoes Captain carried carronades century compound armour constructed crew cruisers designed destroyers diameter draught Dreadnought engines English feet 6 inches feet in length fighting fire fleet forecastle four freeboard French frigates galleys Government greater gunboats heavy Huascar hull hundred inches thick increased iron ironclad Italian Japanese keel knots latter launched main deck masts monitors muzzle muzzle-loading naval oars paddle placed plates ports projectiles protected protected cruisers quick-firers range rifled guns Royal Russian sail screw propeller sea-going shell shipbuilding shot side smaller Spanish speed steam steamer steel stern submarine tons displacement Torpedo Boat Destroyer torpedo boats turret ship upper deck vessels warships water-line weapons weight Whitehead torpedo wooden yards