Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895, with Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1898 |
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Common terms and phrases
14-centimètre 6-inch guns action Admiral Akagi Akitsushima amidships ammunition Aquidaban armament armed armour-deck astern attack barbette battery battle battleships belt boats boilers breech-loaders broadside bulkheads Captain carried Chen Yuen Chih Yuen Chinese ships Ching Yuen close coal crew cruisers damage disabled enemy enemy's engaged engine-room engines English explosion feet fight fire Flying Squadron forts forward four freeboard French frigate funnels gunners harbour heavy guns Hiyei Huascar hull inches thick iron ironclads Japanese killed knots Kowshing Kwang launched line abreast line ahead Lissa Main Squadron Matsushima military masts mounted muzzle-loaders Naniwa naval officers Ping plating port Port Arthur projectiles protected quick-firers Royal Sovereign Saikio shell ship's shot side signal speed sponsons starboard steam steel struck thin armour Ting Yuen tons torpedo gunboats torpedo-boats Tsi Yuen tubes turrets unarmoured upper deck vessels water-line weapons Wei-hai-wei weight whilst wounded Yalu Yang Wei yards
Popular passages
Page 88 - With no knowledge of personnel it would have been hard to say which of the two was the stronger.
Page 185 - I constantly watched the ship; her topsails were either close reefed or on the lap, her foresail was close up, the mainsail having been furled at 5.30 pm, but I could not see any fore and aft set. She was heeling over a good deal to starboard, with the...
Page 186 - She was heeling over a good deal to starboard, with the wind on her port side. Her red bow light was all this time clearly seen. Some minutes after, I again looked for her light, but it was thick with rain, and the light was no longer visible. The squalls of wind and rain were very heavy ; and the Lord Warden was kept, by the aid of the screw and...
Page 100 - Iii helping to put out one" of those fires I was wounded. The fire was forward, on the forecastle, and there was such a fierce fire sweeping the deck between it and the fore-barbette, that the officer whom I ordered to go and put it out declared it to be impossible to get there alive; so I had to go myself. I called for volunteers, and got...
Page 185 - ... the water-line, between seven inches, four inches, and even three inches. In her two turrets she carried six guns of the heaviest calibre — an armament which made her more than the equal of any other ship in the Navy, and enabled Vice-Admiral Symonds to say of her, " She is a most formidable ship, and could, I believe, by her superior armament, destroy all the broadside ships of the squadron in detail.
Page 198 - Second division alter course in succession sixteen points to starboard, preserving the order of the Fleet." " First division alter course in succession sixteen points to port, preserving the order of the Fleet.
Page 50 - Rather than allow this, as we are not the equals of foreigners in the mechanical arts, let us have intercourse with foreign countries, learn their drill and tactics, and when we have made the nations as united as one family, we shall be able to go abroad and give lands in foreign countries to those who have distinguished themselves in battle...
Page 100 - I called for volunteers, and got some splendid fellows — some of our best men, unhappily, for nearly all were killed, but we got the fire under. The fire was on the port side, and as the starboard fore-barbette gun was firing across it, I sent orders that it was only to fire on the starboard side, but, as bad luck would have it, the man who received the order, the Number One of the gun, had his head shot off just after I had gone forward, and his successor did not know of the order.
Page 76 - Bullets began to strike the water on all sides of us," says Mr. Tamplin, the Kowshing's first officer, who had jumped overboard after the explosion, "and, turning to see whence they came, I saw that the Chinese, herding round the only part of the Kowshing that was then out of water, were firing at us.
Page 4 - ... The Legationers had to flee. The Japanese Government obtained reparation for the outrage. Count Ito was sent to Pekin to effect a permanent arrangement regarding Korea. Provoked by the leniency of China toward the Black Flags on the Tonquin frontier, France began hostilities against China. Without a previous declaration of war, the port of Kelung, in the Island of Formosa, was forcibly seized on August 6. Nine days later China declared war on France. Before this declaration a French squadron...