The Queen Mary was one of the fleet of battleships that had patrolled the North Sea since the outbreak of hostilities.

The British fleet, powerful though it was, would have been no match for the great guns of the German fortress, even had the battleships been able to force a passage of the mine fields; and this latter feat would have been a wonderful one in itself, could it be accomplished.

Upon several occasions German battleships, cruisers and submarines had ventured from behind the mine field and had delivered raids upon the British coast, almost 400 miles away.

Farther to the east, other British battleships patrolled the sea, their lights also flashing back and forth.

It was feared that one of these monsters of the air might swoop down upon the battleships and, with a well directed bomb, send the vessel to the bottom of the sea.

Apart from questions of general principle in this matter, accidents to ordnance material in the Navy, or the production of inferior ammunition, may involve, and have involved, the most serious results, even the complete loss of battleships with their crews, as the result of a magazine explosion or the bursting of a heavy gun.

It seems reasonable to expect that it will be the same with modern fleets of suitable battleships.

Some were employed, chiefly because they existed, on special service; but they were being replaced by true battleships on one side and true frigates on the other.

We may allow for a squadron composed of 4 battleships, 4 large cruisers, 4 second-class cruisers, 13 smaller vessels of various kinds, and 3 destroyers, being away from the principal base-port of the station for several months of the year.

Altacoola, that proud arm of our great gulf, will have those battleships floating on her broad bosom and the country will be the better off, and so will the sovereign State of MississippiGod bless itbut neither Senator Peabody of Pennsylvania nor Senator Stevens of Mississippi is going to be any better because of it.

If English submarines were in the Marmora, so, too, were German submarines off the Dardanelles, and if the Turks were losing transports the English were losing battleships.

Two new battleships were trying their speed in the channel between Santa Barbara and the islands, and as the car turned into the park of the hotel the rivals raced into sight.

The two battleships had long ago finished their speed trial; and trails of floating kelp lay like golden sea-serpents asleep under the blue ripple of the sea.

All three waters form a sally-port in the North Sea, and it would be certainly a great advantage if our battleships could unexpectedly unite in these three places.

We must create new types of battleships, which may be superior to the English in speed and fighting qualities.

That is no light task, for the most modern English ships of the line have reached a high stage of perfection, and the newest English cruisers are little inferior in fighting value to the battleships proper.

It is also safe to assume that a fleet built expressly on uniform tactical principles represents a more powerful fighting force than we have to-day in an equal number of heterogeneous battleships.

The familiar lines of anchored battleships appeared with a motion of men in white on the gray decks.

The exigencies of the naval service called him to the command of battleships and to confidential work of the Admiralty; so that five years elapsed before he could resume his Antarctic labours.

COLT, H. DUNSCOMBE. Knights, goats and battleships.

COLT, TERRY STRICKLAND. Knights, goats and battleships.

In justice to Commodore Schley the navy department officers admit the Spanish officers after the battle said that it had been their purpose, on emerging from the harbor, to have the Vizcaya ram the Brooklyn, believing that the Spanish cruisers could outrun the remaining vessels in the American fleet, most of which were battleships, supposed to be of a lower rate of speed than the Spanish cruisers.

Not only the men at the front, not only the men on the battleships and in the battle line, but the men at home with ambition to go to fight the battles of American civilization, should be the recipients of the gratitude of the American people.

The 12-inch Krupps were to stand off battleships attempting to force the harbor, or to bombard the Morro.

She was conveyed in battleships, and lodged with governors and ambassadors.