On Naval Warfare with Steam ...J. Murray, 1860 - 175 Seiten |
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... wind ; while now , an elaborate system of appropriate machinery , put in motion by the expansive force of steam , by enabling a vessel to be moved at pleasure , with more or less rapidity , or to be brought to a state of rest , or again ...
... wind ; while now , an elaborate system of appropriate machinery , put in motion by the expansive force of steam , by enabling a vessel to be moved at pleasure , with more or less rapidity , or to be brought to a state of rest , or again ...
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... wind acting on the sails of the ships — a power in its nature very variable ; and it is evident that the introduction of steam , as a propelling power , whose action is entirely under the control of the engi- neer , will bring about ...
... wind acting on the sails of the ships — a power in its nature very variable ; and it is evident that the introduction of steam , as a propelling power , whose action is entirely under the control of the engi- neer , will bring about ...
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... relates to naval tactics with wind or steam : thus they are prepared to avail themselves of every improvement that science and practice can sug- gest for the augmentation of their professional attain- ments . INTRODUCTION . xi.
... relates to naval tactics with wind or steam : thus they are prepared to avail themselves of every improvement that science and practice can sug- gest for the augmentation of their professional attain- ments . INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... wind in paddle - propelled vessels . In the first place the funnel prevents the use of the main- sail , as stated in the report of the trial between the Reynard ' and the Plumper . ' Again , when the wind is abeam in a breeze of ...
... wind in paddle - propelled vessels . In the first place the funnel prevents the use of the main- sail , as stated in the report of the trial between the Reynard ' and the Plumper . ' Again , when the wind is abeam in a breeze of ...
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... winds or calms , and in emergencies incidental to the operations of war . 41. Feathering - paddles are particularly objectionable for ships of war , as they are even more likely to be damaged by shot than paddles of the common kind ...
... winds or calms , and in emergencies incidental to the operations of war . 41. Feathering - paddles are particularly objectionable for ships of war , as they are even more likely to be damaged by shot than paddles of the common kind ...
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Seite 174 - SvO. 4i. PUBLISHED BY MR. MURRAY. 17 HEIRESS (THE) in Her Minority; or, The Progress of Character. By the Author of
Seite 26 - when the piston has moved two-fifteenths of the whole length of stroke, the effective momentum will be the same as that which would be produced by the steam of less elasticity when used unexpansively : while the consumption of steam, and therefore of fuel, in the former case is only onethird
Seite 27 - of the screw is a result much to be dreaded in a general use of that implement, whatever its advantages may be in other respects, and a sufficient number of experiments have not yet been made to ascertain the effects of long-continued screw-propulsion at full speed. Such experiments should therefore be made and continued
Seite 148 - and, it may be added, fired at long ranges with solid shot, as rapidly, at least, as a 10-inch shell-gun, which cannot fire solid shot It has been. recommended to the Government of the United States that there should be constructed a number of sloops of war, each furnished with brass boat-guns—12 and
Seite xvii - the decision respecting the establishment of ships' crews for manning the 45 ships of the line decreed by the Ordonnance of 1846, it was regulated that an adequate increase should be made in the number of companies, each of which was appointed to consist of 60 seamen of the first, second, and third classes, with 20
Seite 148 - Surely this defective shell-gun should be forthwith withdrawn, and the 68-pounder solid-shot gun substituted. There is ample displacement and deck-room to admit of this; and we have the authority of Captain Dahlgren, and even that of the gallant Captain of the ' Diadem,' for asserting, that the 95-cwt solid-shot 68-pounder may be worked as easily as a
Seite 13 - VOYAGE to the Mauritius and back, touching at the Cape of Good Hope and St.
Seite 21 - 1. IT would be foreign to the plan of this work to enter into details respecting the invention of the steam-engine, or to describe the gradual improvements which it has subsequently undergone; * a brief notice only will
Seite 38 - low in the vessel that both the moving power and the propelling machinery are safe from the damaging effects of shot: the screw allows more freely the use of sails, and consequently enables the vessel to which it is applied to retain her faculties as a
Seite xvii - also that the establishment of seamen-gunners should be on so large a scale, that there might be one well-trained gunner to every gun in the ships to which they should be drafted. The decisions of French Commissioners, on subjects referred to them, are not