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Encyclopedia Britannica



AJAX

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 895 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
AJAX and AGAMEMNON (of 1876)
" Imagine a floating
castle
  110 ft.
long
  and 75 ft. wide, rising To ft. out of the water, and having above that again two round turrets planted diagonally at its opposite corners. -Imagine this
castle
  and its turrets to be heavily plated with
armour
 , and that each turret has within it two guns of about 8o tons eachperhaps in the course of a few years guns of twice 8o tons each. Conceive these guns to be capable of firing, all four together, at an enemy ahead or on either
beam
 , and in pairs towards every point of the
compass
 .
Attached to this rectangular armoured castle, but completely submerged, every
part
  being 6 ft. to 7 ft. under water, there is a hull of the
ordinary
  form, with a powerful ram bow, with twin screws and a submerged
rudder
  and helm. This compound structure is the fighting
part
  of the ship. Seaworthiness,
speed
  and shapeliness would be wanting in such a structure if it had no additions to it; there is therefore an unarmoured structure lying above the sub-merged ship and connected with it, both before and abaft the armoured castle; and as this structure rises 20 ft. out of the water,
104 ft 280 ft
------------
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g
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e
P/an of under water Protective Deck
riddled but (it was contended) not be destroyed. The arrangement shown in fig. 51 represents the " Ajax " and " Agamemnon." The " Inflexible " was similar but larger. Sir N. Barnaby described the
design
  of the " Inflexible " in 1874 before the Institution of Naval Architects thus:
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ow.
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