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Updated: June 24, 2025
They had the largest displacement among warships 27,500 tons; they had the thickest armor, ranging from 8 to 13.5 inches; they had the most improved form of engines oil burners, developing 58,000 horsepower; and most marvelous of all was their primary battery, which consisted of eight 15-inch guns.
The General's Speech to the Fusiliers Before Going Into Action Filming the 15-inch Howitzers A Miniature Earthquake "The Day" is Postponed Keeping Within "The Limits" A Surprise Meeting in the Trenches A Reminder of Other Days I Get Into a Tight Corner And Have An Unpleasantly Hot Experience I Interview a Trench Mortar Have a Lively Quarter of an Hour And Then Get Off. Rain, rain, rain.
Blakely has constructed for Russia two 13-inch smooth-bore guns, 15 feet long and 47 inches maximum diameter, of cast-iron hooped with steel: price, $10,000 each. He has also fabricated many others of large calibre, on the principles before mentioned. The 15-inch Rodman smooth-bore cast-iron gun is of 48 inches maximum diameter, 15 feet 10 inches long, and weighs 25 tons.
For example, the 10-1/2-inch Armstrong 150-pound shot, thrown by 50 pounds of powder at 1,770 feet per second, has nearly twice the destructive effect upon striking, and four times as much upon passing its whole diameter through armor, as the 15-inch 425-pound shot driven by the same powder at 800 feet.
Then gradually raising my head to the view-finder, I covered the section which was going to be "strafed," and wrapping my hand in a khaki handkerchief, waited. Our guns were simply pouring shells on the Bosche. The first of the 15-inch came over and exploded with a deafening roar. The sight was stupefying. I began to expose my film, swinging the camera first on one side then the other.
Of war-tonnage, besides three superdreadnoughts purchased and four finished before the end of 1914, the British have under construction to be finished in 1915 ten battleships of from 25,500 to 27,500 tons, armed with 15-inch guns. The French have finished four of 23,000 tons, with 13 1/2-inch guns, and are finishing three more. The Russians are at work upon six of 23,000 tons, with 12-inch guns.
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