Naval Warfare, Its Ruling Principles and Practice Historically Treated

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W. H. Allen and Company, limited, 1899 - 471 pagini
 

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Pagina 241 - I deliver it unto your Honour upon the credit of a poor gentleman, that out of my ship there was shot 500 shot of demi-cannon, culverin, and demi-culverin ; and when I was furthest off in discharging any of the pieces, I was not out of the shot of their harquebus, and most times within speech one of another. And surely every man did well...
Pagina 422 - ... (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.
Pagina 199 - What a navy ! — what sacrifices for nothing ! — what an admiral ! All hope is gone. That Villeneuve, instead of entering the Channel, has taken refuge in Ferrol ! It is all over : he will be blockaded there.
Pagina 26 - ... in the setting up of our royal ships, the errors of other nations being far more excusable than ours. For the kings of England have for many years been at the charge to build and furnish a navy of powerful ships for their own defence, and for the wars only ; whereas the French, the Spaniards, the Portugals, and the Hollanders (till of late) have had no proper fleet belonging to their princes or states.
Pagina 23 - Great difference I know there is, and a diverse consideration to be had, between such a country as France is, strengthened with many fortified places, and this of ours, where our ramparts are but the bodies of men.
Pagina 26 - ... which takes up twice as much water as the ordinary did. We have lately added the Bonnet and the Drabler. To the courses we have devised studdingsails, topgallant-sails, spritsails, topsails.
Pagina 31 - ... exceeding lamentable, that for any respect in the world, seeing the preservation of the state and monarchy doth surmount all other respects, that strangers should be permitted to eat us out, by exporting and importing both our own commodities and those of foreign nations : for it is no wonder we are overtopped in all the trades we have abroad, and far off, seeing we have the grass cut from under our feet in our fields and pastures.
Pagina 90 - ... strive to divide the enemy's body ; and that squadron that shall pass first, being got to windward, is to bear down on those ships to leeward of them ; and the middle squadron is to keep her wind, and to observe the motion of the enemy's van, which the last squadron is to second ; and both of these squadrons are to do their utmost to assist or relieve the first squadron that divided the enemy's fleet.* The other instructions which, for our present purpose, it is important to note are numbers...
Pagina 30 - Hollanders' trade into both Indies, the Spaniards did not only labour the truce, but the king was content to quit the sovereignty of the United Provinces, and to acknowledge them for free states, neither holding nor depending on the crown of Spain. But be their...
Pagina 54 - ... but here I beheld the sad spectacle, more than half that gallant bulwark of the kingdom miserably shattered, hardly a vessel entire, but appearing rather so many wrecks and hulls, so cruelly had the Dutch mangled us.

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