Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Volume 12The Institution, 1869 - Military art and science |
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Page 405 - Frere's words are well-known and memorable: "....if not particularly objects of curiosity in themselves... must I think be considered in that light, from the situation in which they were found They are, I think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals.
Page 401 - Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears...
Page 243 - One of your great logs (nine by twelve inches thick) is broken in two. The shot struck just outside of where the captain had his eye, and it has disabled him by destroying his left eye and temporarily blinding the other. The log is not quite in two, but is broken and pressed inward one and a half inches. She tried to run us down and sink us, as she did the Cumberland yesterday, but she got the worst of it.
Page 401 - So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
Page 251 - No ship had been exposed to the severest fire of the enemy over forty minutes, and yet in that brief period, as the Department will perceive by the detailed reports of the commanding officers, five of the ironclads were wholly or partially disabled — disabled, too, as the obstructions could not be passed, in that which was most essential to our success — I mean in their armament or power of inflicting injury by their guns.
Page 550 - The question is sometimes asked, — Whether the application of submarine mines will not render unnecessary the employment of forts and batteries for defence against naval attack? ' Forts and batteries, however, are still required in all important cases to cover the torpedoes and prevent their being tampered with. It must also be remembered that whilst the submarine mine is harmless unless the ship comes near it, the shot from the battery can injure the ship whatever may be her position within effective...
Page 251 - ... (overcome) the obstructions, or testing the power of the torpedoes, I was convinced that persistence in the attack would only result in the loss of the greater portion of the iron-clad fleet, and in leaving many of them inside the harbor, to fall into the hands of the enemy.
Page 256 - ... for the distance of three feet above the water's edge to five feet below, the only perceptible effect on the ram was to give her a heavy list. The Hartford...
Page 401 - Hayfield at once without delay, that they will put us in a way how to act. Every one of you must leave your house, take your guns ; who don't have guns take your cutlasses down at once. Come over to Stony Gut, that we might march over to meet the Maroons at once without delay. Blow your shells...
Page 550 - ... possibly,' an attack on the positions in which they were to serve might take place before they could be renewed : and though the periods of the year at which these difficulties might arise are short, yet the bare possibility of interference in the application of a complete torpedo system prevents our placing entire reliance on' such a defence for the protection of places on which the warlike power of the nation, both for offence and defence, must in a great measure depend. Therefore, although...