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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGAMEMNON (of 1876) " Imagine a floating See also:castle 110 ft. See also:long and 75 ft. wide, rising To ft. out of the See also:water, and having above that again two See also:round turrets planted diagonally at its opposite corners. -Imagine this castle and its turrets to be heavily plated with See also:armour, and that each See also:turret has within it two guns of about 8o tons each—perhaps in the course of a few years guns of twice 8o tons each. Conceive these guns to be capable of firing, all four together, at an enemy ahead or on either See also:beam, and in pairs towards every point of the See also:compass. Attached to this rectangular armoured castle, but completely submerged, every See also:part being 6 ft. to 7 ft. under water, there is a See also:hull of the See also:ordinary See also:form, with a powerful See also:ram See also:bow, with twin screws and a submerged See also:rudder and helm. This See also:compound structure is the fighting part of the See also:ship. Seaworthiness, See also:speed and shapeliness would be wanting in such a structure if it had no additions to it; there is therefore an unarmoured structure lying above the sub-merged ship and connected with it, both before and abaft the armoured castle; and as this structure rises 20 ft. out of the water, 104 ft 280 ft ------------ Pk g £NGINES 180/itR5 BOILERS 9,61~11~ e P/an of under water Protective See also:Deck riddled but (it was contended) not be destroyed. The arrangement shown in fig. 51 represents the " Ajax " and " Agamemnon." The " Inflexible " was similar but larger. See also:Sir N. Barnaby described the See also:design of the " Inflexible " in 1874 before the Institution of See also:Naval Architects thus: 18 4r/noar )~lOJL O. L.R. 'I 1~.

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