The turrets are seven and one-half and eight inches thick, and the surrounding barbettes are fourteen inches and eleven and one-half inches of steel.
The side armour was twelve inches thick; the two steel barbettes were each of the same thickness, and the walls of the turrets were eight inches thick.
In coating with metals, the so-called "galvanizing" of iron is an important art.
Such gas has been known and utilized for centuries in China, and was conveyed by the Chinese in bamboo pipes to points of utilization.
Their first effect was to deluge the decks, barbettesand bridges of the two ironclads with the geysers of water flung up by their impact with the waves.
The armoredbarbettes and central citadels of the two Chinese battleships were especially the mark of the Japanese fire.
Turrets and barbettes were torn away, guns dismounted by the enormous shells from heavy guns; steel armour was torn up and thrown aside like paper, and many shots entering broadsides, passed clean through and out at the other side.
From all sides flame rushed from turrets and barbettes in vivid flashes, while the Maxims in the tops poured out their deadly showers of bullets.
Shots came from the frowning barbettes of the Camperdown, Benbow, and the turrets of the Monarch rapidly, the damage and loss of life suffered by the enemy now being enormous.
One of her barbettes was still firing, but she was out of the battle and doomed.
The Montagu had one of her barbettes out of action, and one of the Albemarle’s 12-in.
When steaming against quite a moderate sea the water ran all over her, into the barbettes and down below, and she was much cramped in many ways by the arrangement of her guns.
But in a French ship the four corresponding guns would be each mounted singly in barbettes arranged diamond-fashion, so that three could be fired either ahead, astern, or on either broadside.
Instantly every man drops his job, whatever it may be, and the various squads fall in and march off to their barbettes or casemates, straining their eyes as they go to catch a sight of the enemy.
The crews enter thebarbettes by means of massive steel doors, which are firmly closed behind them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barbettes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
