The Minas Geraes design placed superfiring turrets fore and aft, allowing one turret to fire over another on the centreline. The ships were delivered in 1910, yet the Royal Navy took considerably longer to use superfiring arrangements in its own construction. British yards could offer foreign customers a sensible arrangement that their own navy still treated cautiously. Export orders can therefore reveal design changes that builders implemented abroad before domestic naval institutions accepted them.
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Superfiring turrets for export before Royal Navy adoption
Minas Geraes shows that British yards built superfiring layouts for a foreign navy before the Royal Navy adopted them.