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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 12, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 27.

Among the Latest

Among the Latest.—The Scientific American of May 28 has an article on the latest Dreadnought development. It speaks of the modification since the first was introduced in 1905. The American modification is distinguished by the center-line arrangement of the gun turrets; the German, by the powerful secondary armament and the reported introduction of the triple turret; but "it has remained for Italy—the home of constructive genius and the real birthplace of the Dreadnought itself—to combine in one ship the twin turret, the triple turret, and the center-line arrangement." There are four such ships under construction now. The first will carry ten 12-inch guns; the other three will carry thirteen 12-inch guns,—a larger number of single caliber guns than has ever been mounted in a modern ship, altho the Japanese Satsuma and Aki each carry four 12-inch and ten 10-inch, to say nothing of the twelve 6-inch. The Italian ship will be able to give a full broadside of thirteen 12-inch guns, with a fore and aft fire of five; the displacement will be thirty-four thousand tons, and the speed 22 knots.