BROADSIDE FIRE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 463, 23 March 1909, Page 6

BROADSIDE FIRE.

A NEW ARRANGEMENT OP GUNS. Tho diagrams showing tho broadside fire of

the \on dor Tnnn's expected 25J knots. As against the German • warship's twelve 11-inch Runs and secondary battery of 5.9 inch guns, the Jmlefnfignblc is expected to have the snine broadside as the JndomitablcV-eight 12-inch guns> nil of which can fire on either broadside, find sixteen 4-inch guns. Neither type is, of course, tlic Inst word, i'olloiving the cruiser F (Von der Tann) in the uerman programme nre a cruiser G and a about' 22,000-ton cruiser has been takled According to the "Western Morning News," nlVn •?. Tll( lef.Ttipablc will compare as follow with those of the Indomitable t Indomitable. Indefatigable, length 530 ft $-i| ft 6 : 78 1 ft « or' 80 ft. Displacement 17,259 tons 18,000 tons. Horse-power 41,000 45 000 hpoctl (nominal)... 25 knots 23 knots ACCELERATION OF GERMAN BUILDING. KNOWN LONG AGO. ■ Germany Ims now launched four battleships and one cruiser (Von der Tann) of tlio Dreadnought era. lh o Nassau, Westfalen, llheinland, and losen battleships were launched last 3 ear in .March, July, September, and December respectively. The British battleships of Jal nfl °"? typo launched to date, with innc ? tiauncll .> , aro: Dreadnought (February, 190G, in commission), Bellerophon (July, 1907 now in commission), Tenierairo (August, 1907)' ter 'fvlTll'"" "°| 7, V^ St - V \ nccnt bcr, 1908), Collingwood (November, 1908), and Vanguard (I'ebruary, 1908); and the cruisers are launched''Tn 1907. and Indomitable. Ihe present anxiety, of course, is as to the