Battleships

Tables usually are surfaced either with heavy battleship linoleum or with rubber. The riffles may be a clear grade of sugar pine or may be rubber strips. Such riffles usually taper from the feed end of the table to the discharge end. Almost all mill operators employ different styles of riffling table, which they believe best for their particular separations. The usual method of riffling is shown in Fig. 19-28.

Schlacht-feld, n. battlefield, -fett, n. (butcher s) fat. -haus, n., -hof, m. slaughterhouse, abattoir, -haustalg, m. packinghouse tallow, -schiff, n. battleship. 

Nevertheless, from buna alone, could one forecast that war would break out in the East someday Ter Meer was putting out 9999 other products whose military influence, he claimed, he could not chart. Take nitrotoluol—"normally a very nice red dye is made of that, but it can be given to an explosives factory which makes TNT of it." There were paints which could go onto swimming pools or battleships. "And the very last step before the... 

Figure 7.1 The game of Battleship, where the targets are a fleet of 10 ships...

Introduction by P. Vieille of 2% amyl alcohol as stabilizer for smokeless propellant did not produce satisfactory results, especially in cannons of large caliber, and the amount was increased in 1906 to 8%. Nevertheless, two disastrous explns took place on battleships Iena in 1907 and Liberte in 1911. Both explns were ascribed to spontaneous ignition of poudre BAm stored in their powder magazines (Ref 44, p 248 Ref 3la, p 308)... 

Adoption in 1906 by the French Navy of propint with 8% amyl alcohol stabilizer did not prevent the disastrous expin in 1907 of battleship Iena. As a result of this, previously tested DPhA (diphenylamine) was approved as stabilizer of Naval cannon proplnt, which became known as poudre B(Bo) (Ref 44, p 249) (See also Vol 1 of Encycl, p A395-L)... 

After 1911. As a result of disastrous explosions of battleships Iena (1907) and Liberte (1911), it was decided to investigate various stabilizers besides DPhA, such as naphthalene, MNNaph-thalene, carbazole and DPhNitrosamine. None of them proved to be better than DPhA (Ref 31a, p 309 Ref 44, p 250)... 

For similar reasons, it is advisable to keep the storage magazines cool and, in fact, since the catastrophe aboard the French battleship Jena, occurring in 1907, nearly all countries introduced refrigerating systems for cooling the magazines on ships... 

French battleship, Jena, exploded in 1907 with 114 lives lost... 

French battleship, Liberty destroyed in 1911 with 204 men killed... 

Churchill s decision to economise in the estimates for 1914/15 by substituting submarines for some battleships. " The revolution was, however, incomplete. For another thirty years admirals would claim that battleships could be protected from hazards such as torpedoes and, later, bombers. 

The figure of eight includes a battle-cruiser for Australia but not three battleships built by a British syndicate in Spain. Both Austria-Hungary and Russia ordered British turbines and boilers for their dreadnoughts. 

There is evidence that the increasing demand represented by Admiralty orders forced up prices. Treasury figures showed that the battleship Queen Elizabeth, laid down in October 1912, and costing 2,431,872, would have cost 2,112,000 had it been built at Iron Duke prices (the Iron Duke had been laid down in January 1912). The accounts of shipyards on the Clyde show that the profitability of work for the Admiralty was actually lower in 1909-14 than in 1899-1909, suggesting that higher prices reflected the cost of inputs rather than... 

In 1919 the Naval Staff argued that aircraft were in their infancy and that the battleship could not be dispensed with for the foreseeable future the country whose fast capital ships and their complementary units are not contained or held by similar enemy ships can, with these vessels, sweep the enemy ships and sea-borne trade off the sea . °... 

Geoffrey Till, Airpower and the battleship in the 1920s , in Bryan Ranft (ed.), Technical Change and British Naval Policy 1860-1939 (London Hodder and Stoughton, 1977), pp. 108-22, at pp. 111-13. 

Cruisers were considered by the Naval Staff to be the major threat to British trade, and also the means by which a guerre de course could be conducted against Japan. The Germans sprang a surprise in the early 1930s when they began to replace their pre-dreadnoughts with so-called pocket battleships. These armoured ships were nominally within the... 

January 1934 by Hankey and Fisher about the pocket battleships, Chatfield replied that the French (who had laid down the first of two battle-cruisers in 1932) could look after them. He added that Britain s three battle-cruisers could do so too, but ultimately the Royal Navy might not possess any ships of that type as the design of their replacements would depend upon what the Japanese replaced their battlecruisers with. No attempt was made to build larger cruisers to cope with the pocket battleships. Indeed, the Admiralty proposed at the second London naval conference to reduce the maximum size of cruisers, from the 10,000 tons allowed under the Washington treaty to 8,000 tons, to make it possible to build at less cost the number believed to be required to protect British trade. ... 

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