The Super-Dreadnought

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 10, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 44.

The Super-Dreadnought

A FEATURE of Neptune, the greater Dreadnought, which was launched last Thursday from the British shipyard at Portsmouth, says the Christian Advocate, is that her bulkheads are so heavily armored that they should keep her afloat after several compartments are penetrated by shell or torpedo. Her displacement is 20,250 tons, which is ten per cent more than Dreadnought. Her turbines will drive her twenty-one knots an hour. Her main battery consists of ten twelve-inch guns. This is the eighth Dreadnought that England has launched, or the eleventh reckoning that Inflexible and her sisters, which are classed as battle-ship cruisers, from their combination of gun-power and speed.