The Montana-class battleships were a series of five planned U.S. Navy battleships intended to succeed the Iowa-class ...

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 ...

In the same year also were authorized two battleships ... broadside, and an exceedingly powerful secondary battery mounted in casemates on the gun deck, consisting of twelve 7-inch 50-caliber ...

As Fuller’s reveals, there were arguments over relative fire power of turreted versus broadside ships, sea keeping, and even whether ironclads needed sail and full rigging, which led to disaster when ...