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Show I . Cement for Warship Armor. I American naval designers pay email attention to the talk of cemont for I armor on war vcsselB, as suggested In France and Italy. The formula for l tbo proposed cement armor Is kept I secret, but tho device has n remark-I remark-I able resistance to shells fired from the heaviest naval guns. The weight of tho cement Is much less than the' I Bteel plates now In use. During the I Husso-Japaneso war the Russian war-" war-" ship Sebastopol was accidentally rammed by the l'oresvlet, a leak aevon meters long being made. Tho w leak was repaired with cement. Later the Sebastopol saw active service, 5 being hit once by a torpedo and battered bat-tered by many shells. After nor last fight It was found that she had been hit by six torpedoes, but the cement used In repairing tho leak was practl- cally undamaged. |
