Word: battlefleet
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Naval Drain. The Japanese reacted sharply to the invasion, but still did not commit anything like a battlefleet or a carrier task force. Even the limited reaction cost them dearly...
...indicates enormous armor protection and underwater bulkheading. The German ships mount eight 15-inch guns to the new British ships' ten 14-inchers. Even if they are not, en masse, the British ships' equal, they will constitute a threat which may force the British to base their battlefleet, not at Belfast as at present, but again at Scapa Flow, where Nazi airplanes and submarines can snipe at them more handily...
...battlefleet which Admiral Jones is assembling is the old warrior, Iowa. At 9:30 a. m. July 3, 1898, the Iowa sighted the fleet of Admiral Cervera coming out of Santiago Bay and raised the signal, " Enemy coming out! " Now from March 26 to 30 the Iowa will be used for a moving target for practice by the giant Mississippi, most powerful ship afloat. Under radio control she will be given a run for her life, dodging, turning and racing her engines in a final effort to escape. Five-inch guns, then 14-inch rifles will pour their fire into...
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