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Japanese fighter planes sank two British battleships in the South China Sea, killing nearly 800 people, in December of 1941.
If only we could get at this source of exhaustless energy-but let Wells say what that would mean: Not only should we have a source of power so potent that a man might carry in his hand the energy to light a city for a year, fight a fleet of battleships or drive one of our giant liners across the Atlantic; but we should also have a clue that would enable us at last to quicken the process of disintegration in all the other elements, where decay is still so slow as to escape our finest measurements.
It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.
But taking the situation as it appears from the official statements on both sides the losses are as follows: British: German: Battleships Battleships None One Battle Cruisers Battle Cruisers Three One Armored Cruisers Armored Cruisers Three None Light Cruisers Light Cruisers None Four Destroyers Destroyers Eight Five It is certain that the British losses as here given are substantially correct.
So Beatty turned to the northward, and, as he had hoped, Von Hipper followed; not, however, until he had run far enough on the old course to effect a junction with Von Scheer, whose battleships fell in astern of the battle cruisers as these last swung around to the northward and took up a course parallel to that of Beatty and Thomas.
A majority of the battleships were capable of a speed of 21 to 22 knots, but it is improbable that the force, as a whole, could do better than 20 knots.
Word must have been received by wireless of the loss of the Indefatigable and the Queen Mary, while the battleships were still fifty or sixty miles away, for Beatty at this time was running south faster than Jellicoe could follow.
And the destroyers of both fleets were repeatedly sent at full speed through banks of fog within which the enemy battleships were known to be concealed.
But whether this is true or not, the fact is that it was in seeking to shield the battleships from a destroyer attack that he came under fire of the main German force and lost three of his ships almost immediately; for the Warrior, although she remained afloat for several hours, was doomed from the first.
His mistake-or that of his superior, Von Scheer-came when the British battleships were sighted to the northeastward, heading down across his course.
As soon as the British battleships were seen approaching the German fleet should have turned south and proceeded at full speed (Plate X), not necessarily with intent to refuse battle permanently, but with intent to refuse it until conditions could be made more favorable than they were at this time.
5 of her strength in battleships and battle cruisers of the dreadnought era, which means ships built since 1904, and these are the units that really count in modern warfare.
And every one of these guns, be it remembered, delivers its shell with an energy of 50,000 foot-tons-sufficient to lift either of these battleships nearly two and a half feet into the air.
Later in the fight, several other Russian battleships capsized from the same cause, assisted by the weight of extra supplies of coal which the Russians had stowed on the upper decks above the water-line.
Moreover, in some of the latest battleships of the dreadnought type the practice has been followed of permitting no doors of any description to be cut through the bulkheads below the water-line.
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