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... feet long between perpendicu- lars , 84 feet beam , and that they will carry 50 - calibre 12 - inch guns , ten in number , arranged in five turrets ; but there are recent intimations that these guns will be 13.5 - inch ones when ...
... feet long between perpendicu- lars , 84 feet beam , and that they will carry 50 - calibre 12 - inch guns , ten in number , arranged in five turrets ; but there are recent intimations that these guns will be 13.5 - inch ones when ...
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... feet of the main belt at maximum draught . This is not true of the ships as they are . The theoreti- cal maximum draught of the Connecticut , as calculated by our constructors beforehand , is 26 feet 9 inches . If the Connecticut never ...
... feet of the main belt at maximum draught . This is not true of the ships as they are . The theoreti- cal maximum draught of the Connecticut , as calculated by our constructors beforehand , is 26 feet 9 inches . If the Connecticut never ...
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... feet 6 inches , and it is only at that draught – which she has not had since her trial trip — that her broadside guns are fifteen feet above the water . Her actual full load draught in service is 28 feet 8 inches , or more than four feet ...
... feet 6 inches , and it is only at that draught – which she has not had since her trial trip — that her broadside guns are fifteen feet above the water . Her actual full load draught in service is 28 feet 8 inches , or more than four feet ...
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... feet , the north quay fifteen hundred feet , the west quay twelve hun- dred feet , and the south quay one thousand feet . The southwest corner of this otherwise rectangular basin is to be cut off by a diagonal quay six hundred feet long ...
... feet , the north quay fifteen hundred feet , the west quay twelve hun- dred feet , and the south quay one thousand feet . The southwest corner of this otherwise rectangular basin is to be cut off by a diagonal quay six hundred feet long ...
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... feet above sea level , and from about midships to the stern the freeboard was raised by the height of one deck , increasing the maximum free- board to about sixteen feet at this end of the ship . She had a single smokestack , in front ...
... feet above sea level , and from about midships to the stern the freeboard was raised by the height of one deck , increasing the maximum free- board to about sixteen feet at this end of the ship . She had a single smokestack , in front ...
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Página 7 - If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
Página 7 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded ; and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
Página 17 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.
Página 17 - A prize may only be brought into a neutral port on account of unseaworthiness, stress of weather, or want of fuel or provisions. It must leave as soon as the circumstances which justified its entry are at an end. If it does not, the neutral Power must order it to leave at once ; should it fail to obey, the neutral Power must employ the means at its disposal to release it with its officers and crew and to intern the prize crew.
Página 28 - The contracting Powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference, the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.
Página 16 - Belligerents are forbidden to use neutral ports and waters as a base of naval operations against their adversaries, and in particular to erect wireless telegraphy stations or any apparatus for the purpose of communicating with the belligerent forces on land or sea.
Página 16 - In the absence of special provisions to the contrary in the legislation of a neutral Power, the maximum number of war-ships belonging to a belligerent which may be in one of the ports or roadsteads of that Power simultaneously shall be three.
Página 26 - ... have been communicated to the belligerent Powers at the commencement or during the course of hostilities and in any case before they are employed, shall be respected and cannot be captured while hostilities last.
Página 35 - That nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to reduce the pay or allowances now authorized by law for any officer or enlisted man of the Army; and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.