Q. What vessels are unarmored?
A. Gunboats, torpedo-boats and destroyers.
Q. What is the best part of a ship to attack at long range?
A. The decks.
Q. What part should rapid-fire guns attack at short range?
A. Sides, ends, and small turrets, and guns protected only with shields. These rules, however, may vary with height of battery, form of attack, and class of ships attacking.
Q. How are ships of the U. S. Navy distinguished, knowing their names? (See Fig. 86.)
A. Battle-ships are generally named after States (except the Kearsarge), cruisers after large cities, gunboats after historical cities as a rule, coast-defense monitors have Indian names, torpedo-boats and torpedo-boat destroyers are named after heroes of wars. (The above rules have a few exceptions.)
Q. From the silhouettes on Fig. 86, Ships of the U. S. Navy, find a battle-ship, a high-speed cruiser, a gunboat, a coast-defense monitor.