In return the ship had hit " Admiral Graf Spee " three times; one shell penetrated her main armour belt and narrowly missed detonating in one of her engine rooms, but the most important one disabled her oil-purification equipment.
32.
Like the ships and " Queen Mary ", " Tiger " was given an upper armour belt with a maximum thickness of six inches over the same length as the thickest part of the waterline armour and thinned to abreast the end turrets.
33.
Influences from " Hood " showed on subsequent " Lexington " designs, with the reduction of the main armour belt, the change to " sloped armour ", and the addition of four above-water torpedo tubes to the four underwater tubes of the original design.
34.
Just two shells had struck " Scharnhorst ", neither of which exploded : one 6-inch shell hit above the armour belt and penetrated to a storeroom where, in Spee's words, " the creature just lay there as a kind of greeting . " Another struck a funnel.
35.
According to Ballard's underwater surveys in recent years the British guns achieved only four penetrations of " Bismarck " s armour, two through the upper armour belt on the starboard side from " King George V " and two on the port side from " Rodney ".
36.
Stormy weather in the Bay of Biscay in 1900 caused the captain of " Gaulois " to complain that the ship's forward gun turret and casemates were flooded out and that the ship generated enormous sheets of spray when water came over the armour belt and detonating below the secondary armament positions.
37.
A shell from " Prinz Eugen " found its way to the propelling charge / round manipulation chamber below the aft gun turrets, and a shell from " Bismarck " hit underwater below the armour belt, penetrating about into the ship's hull, about below the waterline, but was stopped by the anti-torpedo bulkhead.
38.
The main armour belt was high and covered the hull side from the main armoured deck to finish Post-World War I studies had indicated that it was possible for delayed-action AP shells to dive under a shallow belt and penetrate into vital areas of the ship and therefore the main belt was made to extend as far below the waterline as possible.
39.
The " Formidable " s armour scheme was similar to that of the " Canopus " es, although, unlike in the " Canopus " es, the armour belt ran all the way to the stern; it was long, deep and thick, tapering at the stem to thick and deep and at the stern to thick and deep.
40.
While she received the 4-inch armour belt and the double 4-inch gun mounts like her sisters, she retained the rotating catapult and after superstructure, with an additional fire-control position mounted on a distinctive lattice structure aft . Her anti-aircraft armaments were improved as for her sisters, but the multiple 2-pounders and their directors were carried aft, by the lattice structure.
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