A PostScript to the Section on Iron Defenses: Contained in the Fifth Edition of 'Naval Gunnery' in Answer to the Erroneous Principles Set Forth by the Reviewer in 'The Quarterly Review' for October, 1860
A PostScript to the Section on Iron Defenses: Contained in the Fifth Edition of 'Naval Gunnery' in Answer to the Erroneous Principles Set Forth by the Reviewer in 'The Quarterly Review' for October, 1860
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ... seas, condemns, in no measured terms, the notion of the practicability of using them in ocean fleets as substitutes for line-of-battle ships. Admitting fully the advantage of floating-batteries, gunboats, and other vessels of small draught of water, for the special services above stated, he has well said that "to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ... seas, condemns, in no measured terms, the notion of the practicability of using them in ocean fleets as substitutes for line-of-battle ships. Admitting fully the advantage of floating-batteries, gunboats, and other vessels of small draught of water, for the special services above stated, he has well said that "to dominant fleets of line-of-battle ships--the true representatives of naval power--for service in the open sea will always belong the sovereignty of the ocean; and that the nation that would renounce these true representatives of naval power, by constituting their fleets of comparatively small ships, adapted only to services purely special, would be infallibly erased from the category of first-rate naval powers."22 If we should be so infatuated as to commence forthwith the reconstruction of our navy on such a principle, England would assuredly, ere long, be erased from the category of first-rate maritime powers, and lose the empire of the seas. Such really has been the delusion in the case of "La Gloire," such the panic upon the mere appearance on the sea of that solitary frigate, --and she a failure, --that I should not be surprised when that delusion shall have been dispelled, --and it is passing away, --if it were spoken of as in the days of the Warner hoax. I am quite sure that as much nonsense, deceit, deception, and credulity are exhibited in the one as there were in the other. But, though I know that " La Gloire " is a failure in speed and in all the qualities required in a sea-going ship, yet the public mind has been brought to such a state of fever and delusion on this subject, that I will allow that the Government is perhaps right in laying down other such monsters before the "Warrior," the "Black ...
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