Excerpt from The British Navy, Past and Present: With Lists Showing Strength of H. M. Fleet in All Classes of Ships; Revised and Enlarged This war was the connecting link between the past and the present Navy. It was the death-blow to our wooden walls and gave birth to the ironclad. The terrible effect of shell against wooden structures was realised in one quarter at least, and from that time it was evident that fleets in future would have an entirely different character. There was no gradual evolution, but a leap ...
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Excerpt from The British Navy, Past and Present: With Lists Showing Strength of H. M. Fleet in All Classes of Ships; Revised and Enlarged This war was the connecting link between the past and the present Navy. It was the death-blow to our wooden walls and gave birth to the ironclad. The terrible effect of shell against wooden structures was realised in one quarter at least, and from that time it was evident that fleets in future would have an entirely different character. There was no gradual evolution, but a leap from the 120-gun wooden line-of-battle ship to the iron frigate carrying one quarter the number of guns but burdened with over a thousand tons of armour four inches thick. Such was now to represent the power of nations at sea, and which, with the same advance in dimensions as characterised the wooden ships from one century to another, has continued to do so up to the present time. Though I do not intend to dwell otherwise than briefly upon our early ironclad fleet, it is useful to recall one or two of the characteristics of the first representative. When completed for sea in 1861 the W tumor had a displace ment of tons, of which tons were devoted to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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