And on it lie, first a cruiser squadron, and then a line of Dreadnoughts stretching out of sight.
A battle at close range between two huge modern dreadnoughts would be as deadly to both combatants as a duel between two men standing close together, face to face, holding pistols at each other's breast.
Were two modern dreadnoughts to battle at as close range as did the Monitor and the Merrimac, immediate destruction would be mutual.
This number of up-to-date super-dreadnoughts would have far more than doubled the battle strength of our Navy.
When the Government held the four dreadnoughts back, they should have been pushing a dozen dreadnoughts forward; when they tried to save a few millions they should have laid out fifty millions.
He had a suspicion that Admiral Jellicoe was a conjuror who could take Dreadnoughtsout of a hat.
Those who work at a navy yard keep the navy's house; welcome home all the family, from Dreadnoughts to trawlers, give them cheer and shelter and bind up their wounds.
His Dreadnoughts could rest at anchor at a base, while his scouts kept in touch with all that was passing, and his auxiliaries and destroyers fought the submarines.
On one of the Dreadnoughts I saw a gun's crew drilling with a dummy six-inch; weight, one hundred pounds.
Hamburg's citizens had to exhibit the fortitude of those of Rheims under another kind of bombardment: that of the silent guns of British Dreadnoughts far out of range.
One sat down for a few minutes behind the wind-screen of the destroyer's bridge, only to look back and see more Dreadnoughts going by.
The gun- layers never tire of it and they think they know the reason as well as anybody why von Tirpitz keeps his Dreadnoughts at home.
It is also evident that they will not be fully prepared as long as they are able to borrow money or raise it by taxes in order to build Dreadnoughts and get on the best possible war footing.
Wheat will be needed just as much as Dreadnoughts or ammunition.
He is going to damage England more truly thandreadnoughts or airships.
When again in the streets, I found that the twoDreadnoughts were shelling some torpedo-boats, manned by crews still loyal, which had approached them.
And, presently, Edwards saw an ominous puff of white smoke break out from one of the dreadnoughts and heard the boom of a twelve-inch gun.
It was voted that we have a strong and fully manned navy with 48 dreadnoughts and battle cruisers in proportion.
Each of these dreadnoughts had a speed of 23 knots.
For the task of holding Austria in the Adriatic, which Italy now took over from France, she possessed four dreadnoughts and two more almost ready.
German Dreadnoughts had, moreover, been built for defence in home waters and not for keeping the seas.
A Zeppelin, harbinger of coming events, hovered over the British squadron at intervals, her crew wagging cheery greetings to the ships while acquainting themselves at close range with the looks of English dreadnoughtsfrom the sky.
King George spent Sunday, July 19, quietly at sea, steaming up and down the endless lines of dreadnoughts and lesser ironclads.
British sailormen paid fraternal visits to German dreadnoughts and German sailormen returned their calls.
Jellicoe's dreadnoughts and destroyers take part at intervals in the grim battle for the channel coast.
Dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts are doomed, because they no longer can be safe at sea from the submarine nor find safety in harbors.
But if the Queen Elizabeth herself had been with us, and we had had full visibility—with the horizon a hard dark line—we would have willingly taken on all Fritz’s 12-inch Dreadnoughts and thrown in his battle cruisers.
In a sentence, while Germany was laboriously copying our Dreadnoughts we had cast their designs aside, and were producing at a speed, with which he could not compete, Orions, K.
Three of his battleships are new, built since the war began, but the rest are just Königs and Kaisers, no better than our Dreadnoughts of half a dozen years ago.
We are not preaching dreadnoughts that take four years to build.
It may indeed force the relegation of dreadnoughts to the scrap heap.
Germany would have a fleet of aërial dreadnoughts that would force any hostile nation to subjection.
For the dreadnoughts were armored with densely degenerate matter, impervious to any but a direct hit, and compartmented to require many hits.
Meanwhile, England had to go on building new dreadnoughts and cruisers and destroyers at top speed, with a view to increasing her rate of naval superiority over the Germans.
She had a fleet superior in every class of ship, and she had led the world in naval progress--both her dreadnoughts and her battle cruisers being of a later type than her rival's.
It must find its protection under the sea, while all freight and all passengers, all the world's business is done on the surface of the sea; and the great guns of the dreadnoughts command the surface.
But this is what one of Count Zeppelin's soaring dreadnoughts did in this night, in this blood-drenched year.
The arrival of British dreadnoughts quickly turned the scale, and the German ships fled to the safety of their harbor.
We cannot contemplate throwing an army of a million British conscripts on to the North-West Frontier of India, and a fleet of Super-Dreadnoughts will be ineffective either in Thibet or the Baltic shallows.
Our Dreadnoughts will cease to be a source of unmitigated confidence A second battleship disaster will excite the Press extremely.
Eighty Dreadnoughts manned by dull men are only eighty targets for a quicker adversary.
So swift, even since then, however, had been the advance in naval construction that, when Sir John Jellicoe stepped on board the Iron Duke, the first of the dreadnoughts was almost obsolete.
Nearly five thousand thirty-man ships of Earth and Venus, invisible in the darkness of space, suddenly leaped into action as the dreadnoughts sped past.
The Queen Elizabeth class of dreadnoughtshad been designed with the great speed of 25 knots for the purpose of working with battle cruisers on such service.
The main body of the German High Seas Fleet, under Admiral Scheer, consisting of sixteen dreadnoughts and six predreadnought battleships.
The fleet speed of this main body was 17 knots, because the German dreadnoughts had been eked out with predreadnought battleships of less speed.
Such an attempt would have exposed his own battle cruisers to the 15-inch guns of the approachingdreadnoughts of Admiral Evan-Thomas's squadron.
If I have enough airships, I won't bother about George's Dreadnoughts at all, for my nine army corps can be shipped from Calais in half an hour's time.
There the War Lord saw sections of armour-plates for one of his Dreadnoughtscut as if they were so many enormous Swiss cheeses.
Although the British Navy held superiority over the German Navy in ships not of the dreadnought type, the balance in dreadnoughts was virtually even.
It was also stated that in the year 1911 Germany would possess thirteen dreadnoughts and Great Britain only twelve, which statement was founded upon reasonable assumptions.
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