File:Germany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe (1914) (14593450659).jpg
DescriptionGermany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe (1914) (14593450659).jpg
Text Appearing Before Image: umbers thirty-eight ships of the line,fourteen armored cruisers, thirty-eight protected cruis-ers, two hundred twenty-four tor))edo-boats and thirtysubmarines. There are no torpedo-boat-destroyers asin other navies, the small cruisers being supposed totake their place. The battle-ships are ranged in classes.There are three of the King class (the Konig, theGrosser KurfUrst and the Marhgraf), which have adisplacement of nearly 26,000 tons and are equippedwith every possible modern improvement, such as netprotection against torpedoes, turbine engines, provisionfor oil-fuel, torpedo tubes, etc. It is from these mon-sters, of which each carries ten of the largest guns, notto speak of the smaller ones, that we shall probably hearmost in the course of the war, though not perhaps in thebeginning, as they are not fully completed. They areto be joined in 1915 by a sister-ship, the Kronpriiiz. The Konig class is to be larger in dimension, inhorse-power and in displacement, though not in speed or Text Appearing After Image:
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