On Naval Warfare with SteamJ. Murray, 1858 - 155 Seiten |
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... importance to the country with which your Royal Highness is happily associated and identified , I have only to hope that my endeavour to give unity of system to the tactics of war by land and sea , as well as military strength to the ...
... importance to the country with which your Royal Highness is happily associated and identified , I have only to hope that my endeavour to give unity of system to the tactics of war by land and sea , as well as military strength to the ...
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... importance of the several European nations . This subject has already attracted the notice of scien- tific men in foreign countries ; and an opinion prevails abroad , that the employment of steam as a moving power for ships of war will ...
... importance of the several European nations . This subject has already attracted the notice of scien- tific men in foreign countries ; and an opinion prevails abroad , that the employment of steam as a moving power for ships of war will ...
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... importance to us , and it should engage us to bring every possible consideration to bear on the means by which Great Britain may , even at the outset , be enabled to maintain that superiority in steam - warfare , which has already been ...
... importance to us , and it should engage us to bring every possible consideration to bear on the means by which Great Britain may , even at the outset , be enabled to maintain that superiority in steam - warfare , which has already been ...
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... importance , and , in any one steamer , it is found to vary with the vessel's draught of water and with the cube of its velocity ; consequently , when a high speed is obtained , the consumption will be very great , a double velocity ...
... importance , and , in any one steamer , it is found to vary with the vessel's draught of water and with the cube of its velocity ; consequently , when a high speed is obtained , the consumption will be very great , a double velocity ...
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... importance . 74. The screw is , in general , less exposed than a wheel to injury from objects floating in the water ; yet in a crowded anchorage it is liable to become entangled with warps , nets , and the like ; and any expedient by ...
... importance . 74. The screw is , in general , less exposed than a wheel to injury from objects floating in the water ; yet in a crowded anchorage it is liable to become entangled with warps , nets , and the like ; and any expedient by ...
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