Battleships and Large Crusiers

Table of Contents1. Preface /52. Artillery and accuracy in second half of XIX century /7Firing of sea /7Range finding /8Firing to moving target /9Stability and accuracy /10Guns and shells versus armour scheme /11Material for armour /28Fire control systems, shooting procedures, increasing the combat distance /323. Heavy ships from the end of the XIX and early XX centuries /36First battleships - in some countries named ironclads /36Central side battery battleship (ironclads) /37Casemate battleships (Ironclads) /38Turret battleships (ironclads) /39Barbette battleships (ironclads) /43Predreadnoughts and semidreadnoughts /45Dreadnoughts /48Armoured cruisers /51Large armoured cruisers. Dreadnought cruisers. Battlecruisers /53Super-dreadnoughts /624. American heavy ships at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries /645. Maine (ACR-1) and Texas /66 Maine / Texas and rest of the world /71France: armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lome /73Great Britain: Battleships Trafalgar class first class cruisers Blake class /78Battleships Trafalgar class /78First class cruisers Blake class /81Spain: class Infanta Maria Teresa /866. First American armoured cruiser - USS New York (ACR-2) /96New York and rest of the world /102Russia: Rurik /103Great Britain: First class cruisers of the Edgar class /106Italy: armoured cruisers Marco Polo class /1117. Cruisers Columbia class (C-12) /115Columbia and rest of the world /118France: armoured cruisers of the Amiral Charner class /119Italy: armoured cruiser Vettor Pisani class /122Austria-Hungary: armoured cruiser Kaiserin und Konigin Maria Teresa /1248. First serial "coastline battleshios" USA: Indiana Class (B/BB-1) /126Indiana and rest of the world /131France: battleship Jaureguiberry /138Germany: battleships of the Brandenburg class /145Great Britain: battleships of the Royal Sovereign class, and HMS Hood /152Russia: Battleshio Navarin /1599. First "seagoing coastline battership" USS Iowa (B/BB-4) /166Iowa and rest of the world /170Russia: battleships of the Petropavlovsk /171France: battleship Bouvet /175Great Britain: battleshios of the Majestic class /17910. Armoured cruiser Brooklyn (ACR-3) /191Brookyn and rest of the world /193Russia: Armoured cruiser Russia /195France: Armoured cruiser Pothuau and protected cruiser D`Entrecasteaux /198Spain: Armoured cruiser Calos V /202Italy/Argentina: armoured cruisers Giuseppe Garibaldi /203Great Britain: Cruisers of the Powerful and Diadem class /20511. Battleships of the Kearsage class (B/BB-5) /222Kearsage and rest of the world /229Great Britain: battleships of theMajestic / Illustrious class /231France: battleships of the Charlemagne class /235Russia: battleships of the Peresvet class /239Germany: Battleships of the Kaiser Friedrich III, armoured cruiser Furst Bismarck /24212. Battleships of tthe Illinois class (B/BB-7) /249Illinois and rest of the world /253Great Britiain: Battleship of the Canopus class /254Japan: battleship of the Shikishima class/260France: battleship Henri IV /26213. Appendices /268Armament /268Heavy artillery /270Self defence artillery /290Medium artillery /29914. Indexes /305