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PROTECTION OF CAPITAL SHIPS.
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Explanation of battleship protection, "PROTECTION OF CAPITAL SHIPS" (issued April 14, 1921; held by the University of Tokyo Kashiwa Library), compares British and American concepts of capital-ship protection and discusses underwater protection, protective decks, vertical armor, fuze action, and other topics. It mentions experiments by the Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of C. & R., U.S.S. Pensylvania, HOOD, BADEN, Admiral Von Tirpitz, the Davis torpedo, Norfolk and Chatham, and other matters. Keywords: battleship protection, underwater protection, protective deck, HOOD, BADEN, Bureau of Ordnance, Davis torpedo, fuel oil, blisterAuto-generated by Azure OpenAI gpt-5.5 from OCR text (which may contain errors) and image captions.