A battleship has frequently been described ... anangements which gave them end-on fire by the sacrifice of broadside fire to such an extent that from twenty to thirty and more per cent cf guns ...

The fire in any direction from these ships is heavy, consisting of two 12's, four 8's, and two 7's ahead and astern, and four 12's, four 8's, and six 7's on the broadside. They are provided with ...

State-of-the-art battleship armament in the late ... This gave Dreadnought an eight-gun broadside and six-gun head-on fire in either direction. Dreadnought was armored on roughly the same scale ...