The Americans startled the world with their famous Monitor, and now we have a New York inventor desirous of doing the same with the extraordinary lighting craft here illustrated. It is hard to say whether the Trident, as the proposed structure has been named by Mr Stokes, the inventor, should he called a movable fort on a semi immovable ship. Her shape is a sphere with a small section removed from the top and a much larger from underneath, her bottom being quite flat. She is to he armoured with 12 in. of plating down to the circular gallery running round her side, and below this to some distance below the water-line with 18 in, armour. Her three fixed turrets, each of which is to contain an 8 in. gun, are of 12 in. armour, as is also her central conning tower. The two big guns which lie side by side across the centre of the ship are much longer than one might imagine as little more than their muzzles protrude from the side of the Trident. She will have a displacement of over ll,000 tons. From “The Sphere," THE INSIDE OF THE GLOBULAR NAVAL BATTERY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XIV, 2 April 1904, Page 43

The Americans startled the world with their famous Monitor, and now we have a New York inventor desirous of doing the same with the extraordinary lighting craft here illustrated. It is hard to say whether the Trident, as the proposed structure has been named by Mr Stokes, the inventor, should he called a movable fort on a semi immovable ship. Her shape is a sphere with a small section removed from the top and a much larger from underneath, her bottom being quite flat. She is to he armoured with 12 in. of plating down to the circular gallery running round her side, and below this to some distance below the water-line with 18 in, armour. Her three fixed turrets, each of which is to contain an 8 in. gun, are of 12 in. armour, as is also her central conning tower. The two big guns which lie side by side across the centre of the ship are much longer than one might imagine as little more than their muzzles protrude from the side of the Trident. She will have a displacement of over ll,000 tons. From “The Sphere,"

THE INSIDE OF THE GLOBULAR NAVAL BATTERY.