Talk:HMS Agamemnon (1879)

Please explain
"..firing along the line of the keel produced unacceptable blast damage to the superstructure, so that in reality the turrets could only fire on beam arcs". ??? I am guessing that this might mean that it could only fire directly to the sides, but this seems to imply that the ship was designed by a moron. Such stuff needs to be spelt out unambiguously for the novice. The whole point of an encyclopedia is to make serious stuff accessible to a general audience. Rcbutcher (talk) 13:43, 7 July 2009 (UTC)