Defense system created to protect the British king George V from shell splinters when he was on the bridge of a ship
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Defense system created to protect the British king George V from shell splinters when he was on the bridge of a ship
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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If the King Had Stood upon the Bridge
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IN those far-off days when Zeppelin flew over England and
‘submarines infested the English Channel, King George decided
to look things over in France. His faithful subjects were nerv-
ous lest harm befall him on his trip, and so they put on the ship
that was to take him over several safety devices.
The picture above. shows one of these devices — padding tied
around the bridge to protect it from shell splinters. This was
certainly the height of precaution, for the German navy that
was did not have a reputation for being venturesome, and
there was little chance of its attacking anything larger than a
moter-boat.
But if King George had happened to be on the bridge —as he
isin the illustration —when an attack was made, flying bits of
steel would have embedded themselves in the padding instead of
in the King.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Underwood & Underwood (Image copyright)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-03
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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57
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 3, 1919
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