WON BY THE GUN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13030, 22 November 1905, Page 3 (Supplement)

WON BY THE GUN.

ELSWICK AND TOGO'S VICTORY. J Vu-:su>lvg over the annuaJ meeting of shareholders in Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, held at Newcastle, recently, Sir Andrew Noble made special reference to the armament of battleships in connection with the recent Avar. There was a consensus of opinion that whereas in the older type of vessels they frequently found guns of four or five calibres, only two calibres, one for heavy armament and one for light, would be now put on board. The great success of Els wick in the war just ended would be a source of satisfaction to the shareholders. In Admiral Togo's last great battle, a battle infinitely greater in power of fighting material than any naval battle previously fought, and probably not inferior in importance to any in the world's history, the Japanese oommander hail twelve ships, eight of which came from British yards. Four were from Elswick, two from the Thames, one fvom Barrow, and one from Clydebank. The whole of the twelve ships were armed with Elswick guns ten ships being supplied from Elswick, and two from Pozzuoli. These guns could give a total broadside of seventy tons of projectiles per minute. Admiral Togo considered that the battle was- won before torpedoes were used at all. It was essentially a battle of guns.