Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Pre-dreadnoughts yakatakura pfuti dzakasiyana-siyana dzakasiyana-siyana, nokuda kwezvinzvimbo zvakasiyana-siyana muhondo yechikepe-ku-chikepe. Zvombo zvikuru zvaiva zvombo zvinorema zvina, zvakaiswa muzvigadziko zviviri zvepakati-mutsetse kumberi nekumashure. Vashomanene zvikuru vepamberi pezvikepe zvechikepe vakatsauka kubva pakurongwa uku. Izvi zvombo zvaive zvinononoka kupfura, uye pakutanga zvaive zvisina kunyatsoita; asi dzaive pfuti chete dzairema zvakakwana kuti dzipinde muzvombo zvakakora zvaidzivirira injini, magazini, uye zvombo zvikuru zvehondo dzevavengi. Iyo caliber yakajairika yezvombo zvikuru yaive 12-inch (305 mm), kunyangwe hazvo dzimwe ngarava dzaishandisa zvombo zvidiki nekuti dzaigona kuwana mwero wakakwira wekupfura; Zvikepe zveBritain zvehondo kubva kuMajestic kirasi zvichienda mberi zvaive neiri caliber, sezvakaitwa nezvikepe zveFrance kubva kuCharlemagne kirasi (yakamiswa muna 1894). Japan, ichipinza mizhinjisa yezvombo zvayo muBritain, yaishandisa pfuti dzamasendimita 12. United States yakashandisa zvose zviri zviviri 12-inch (305 mm) uye 13-inch (330 mm) pfuti kwechikamu chikuru che1890s kusvikira Maine kirasi (isingafaniri kuvhiringidzwa neyekare Maine yeSpanish-American War notoriety), yakaiswa pasi muna 1899, mushure meiyo 12-inch pfuti yaive yenyika yose. VaRussia vakashandisa zvose zviri zviviri 12 ne10-inch (254 mm) sezvombo zvavo zvikuru; Petropavlovsk kirasi, Retvizan, Tsesarevich, uye Borodino kirasi yakanga ine 12-inch (305 mm) mabhatiri makuru apo kirasi yePeresvet yakaisa 10-inch (254 mm) pfuti. The vokutanga German pre-dreadnought kirasi akashandisa 11-padiki (279 mm) pfuti asi kwakaderera kuti 9.4-padiki (239 mm) pfuti nokuda maviri anotevera makirasi uye vakadzokera 11-padiki pfuti pamwe Braunschweig kirasi.  Mubvunzo: Ndezvipi zvombo izvo Japan yakashandisa, izvo zvayakatora kuBritain?
Pfuti dzamasendimita gumi nemaviri.