TESTS OF ARMOR-PLATES FOR THE JAPANESE BATTLE-SHIP ASAHI.
Messrs. John Brown and Co., Limited, of Sheffield, who are making the armor for the Imperial Japanese battle-ship Asahi, now building on the Clyde by the Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Limited, submitted for firing test on December 2nd last a piece cut from one of that ship’s partly finished belt plates, which had been selected for the purpose by the Japanese authorities, and the admirable results got are stated.
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