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During the two years Germany sustained a reduction of 18.5 of her strength in battleships and battle cruisers of the dreadnought era, which means ships built since 1904, and these are the units that really count in modern warfare. Britain is believed to have lost 6.6 of similar vessels.
A moment later and a second smudge appeared and then a third, to be followed almost immediately by a fourth. "Strange!" he muttered. "Seems to be coming from the direction of Heligoland. Battleships all right, but the question is, British or German? Must be the latter, though how they figure to run the British blockade is more than I know.
Its strength was nothing, its energy pitted unnoticed against the energy of five hundred thousand million suns as vain as those futile attempts of the Thessian battleships on the invulnerable walls of the Thought.
After some valuable battleships were sent to the bottom by the German submarines it was realized that "Big Lizzie" was too vulnerable and valuable to be kept in these waters; so in the later months her place was taken by some weird craft that excited great curiosity among the sailormen. These were the "monitors" which were just floating platforms for big guns.
No, thanks, I won't smoke till we get outside. Now, those fellows" the speaker jerked his head astern to the great grey Battleships "those big-ship wallahs they're only just beginning to take Us seriously. I put in my big-ship time at the beginning of the war we do a year in a big ship, you know, for our sins and the fellows in the Mess used to jeer at Us.
"You have taken over from my brother, who represents the Brazilian Government, two new battleships." "That is so," His Excellency answered, "but I want the indemnity of your ambassador." "I cannot give it you," the ambassador declared, "until I have received the money." "Where is Delora?" some one asked. We looked around. The same suspicion was in the minds of all of us. Delora had fled!
After a series of accidents and delays, the Baltic fleet under Admiral Rojdestvensky 8 battleships, 5 cruisers, 8 destroyers, and numerous auxiliaries left Libau Oct. 18, 1904, on its 18,000-mile cruise. Off the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, the ships fired into English trawlers under the impression that they were enemy torpedo craft, and thus nearly stirred England to war.
"If this fight ends before nightfall, that Red Cross ship is sure to come back and pick up all they can, and you can see for yourself just the position it is in now. It can't get to the battleships without coming past us. So we have a good chance. I've been in the water longer than this without much damage. But I wish you could manage to keep yourself together, Velo.
A Russo-German-French fleet of battleships, cruisers and destroyers, assisted by four airships and an unknown number of submarines, has defeated the Southern portion of the North Sea Squadron, and is now proceeding in two divisions, one up the Medway towards Chatham, and the other up the Thames towards Tilbury.
The slight haze perceptible from the land was not noticeable to the air voyagers. Below them a four-masted schooner was tacking in the light wind. Closer in shore lay several grim looking battleships and cruisers. In their leaden colored "war paint" they looked menacing and bulldoggish. Far off, a mere speck, could be seen a dim and indistinct object pointing upward from the cape like a finger.
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