Excerpt from Page's Magazine, Vol. 4: Engineering, Electricity, Shipbuilding, Mining, Iron and Steel Industries; April, 1904 It may therefore be imperative for batteries to try and stop ships before they can get to close range, and fire will have to be opened at about yards and gradually increased in rapidity as the range shortens and accurate laying with auto-sights, with which presumably all modern guns' will be fitted, becomes possible. To enable an accurate fire to be opened at these extreme ranges the guns must have a high initial velocity. The projectiles from the heaviest guns should be capable of penetrating the belt armour of modern vessels at, at least, yards, and those from medium guns should be able to pierce the armour of, and destroy, the secondary armament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.