The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-03

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tleships armed with Pinch or 1S-inch
guns.
Battleships Are Compared
| 1T was further developed that accord
! ing to this comparison in the navy year
book the tonnage of the German battle
ships was from 1854, which was the
| smallest, to 1891 which was the largest
of 20 German battleshps and that of 27
American battleships the smallest was H.
346 and the largest was 1900 tons. The
| Secretary admitted that so far as the
! tonnage of the battleships was concerned,
| the American navy was greater than
that of the Germans, as we'll as an excess
of seven battleships in favor of the Amer
| lean navy.
I'm regard to the armament of the
| German 20 battleships it was developed
that 10 of them were supplied each with
| four guns, 4-10-inch in calibre and the
| other 10 each with four guns II inches
| in calibre, while all of the 81 American
| battleships are each armed with -four r.
inch or 13-inch guns, showing the great
| superiority of the American battleships
| in point of the power of guns
Comparing the dreadnaughts of the
German with those of the American
navy it appeared, according to the year
| book, that the German navy has 13 and
| the American has only seven This re-
| suit is brought about by including in
| the list of German dreadnaughts four
| ships which are armed with 11-inch
guns, while all of the dreadnaughts in
the American navy are armed with II
or 14-inch guns. The result was fur
| ther brought about in the year book
| by taking out of the dreadnaught class
| the Michigan and the South Carolina
| each Of which has tonnage of 10000
tons, and each of which is armed with
l nj \, f.n1.
and the South Carolina had been put
in the list where they belong and where
they We're placed in the 1912 navy
year hook and previous to that time
and the four German ships which have
| only 11-fnch guns, were taken out of
the dreadnaught type and put into the
lbattleship class, where they belong
| then the dreadnaughts in both of the
navies would be the same in number
| nine
Dreadnaughts of Two Navies
| In regard to the tonnage of the
| dreadnaughts of the two navies. 1t
was developed that the lowest tonna ge
in any German dreadnaught was 22,-
i45 tons and the largest 24,3O6, while
IN the American navy the lowest tom
mage is $4,000 and the highest is 81
| 600 tons
| Comparing the dreadnaughts of the
| German navy with those of the Amer
| lean navy in point of guns, it was
| developed that each of four of the
| German dreadnaughts has an arma-
ment of 12 12-inch guns and the other
five each an armament of 10 12-inch
| guns, while in the American navy IL
| appeared that two had an armament
each of eight 12-inch guns; four had
10 12-fnch guns; two had ~ 12-inch
guns and two had 10 14-inch guns
showing the great superiority of the
American dreadnaughts In calibre and
power of their guns.
| comparing the two navies with ref
| ererce to dreadnaughts now building
| 1t appeared that the smallest dread
naught now being built in the German
Eavy is 26,575 tons and the smallest
building in the American navy is 81
600 tons; that the largest dreadnaughts
! building in the German navy have a
tonnage Of $4,000 and the largest build
ing in the American navy have a tom
mage of 81, 400, or an excess of 340O
tons of the largest German ships now
building. Comparing the dreadnaughts
now building further with reference
to the armament 1T appeared that the
| four smallest German dreadnaughts
now building have each 10 12-inch guns
and that the largest now building have
each eight 15-inch guns, while all the
dreadraughts now building in the
American navy have 14-inch guns, three
of them being supplied with 10 each
and two of them with 12 each
at was further developed in compar-
ing the American navy with the jap
anese navy that the American navy
has 80 battleships and the Japanese
navy only 10. including all those in
both navies that are built and build
ing