 | 1902 - 1492 Seiten
...war-ships, we now have two, these two being the Warrior and her sister the Ironsides. There is now not a ship in the English navy apart from these two that...to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor. Iron is the link between wood and steel in naval construction ; its quick passage from use as the material... | |
 | Frank Marion Bennett, Robert Weir - 1896 - 1016 Seiten
...purposes one hundred and forty-nine first-class war-ships, we have now two, these two being the Warrivr and her sister Ironside. There is not now a ship in...to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor. ' England and all other maritime powers immediately proceeded to reconstruct their navies, and the... | |
 | Frank Marion Bennett - 1897 - 514 Seiten
...were of no further use for fighting purposes. Commenting upon the news of that event, the London Times said: ' Whereas we had available for immediate purposes...to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor. ' England and all other maritime powers immediately proceeded to reconstruct their navies, and the... | |
 | Edward Kirk Rawson - 1899 - 466 Seiten
...admirers of the Monitor aud of Ericsson. He is a great genius." — LIEUTENANT T. AP R. CATESBY JONES. Whereas we had available for immediate purposes one...apart from these two, that it would not be madness to think of an engagement with that little Monitor. — London Times. So of the Monitor, — " Minotaur,"... | |
 | Frank Marion Bennett - 1900 - 462 Seiten
...interference. This discovery was well expressed by the " London Times," which said editorially : " Whereas we had available for immediate purposes one...trust to an engagement with that little Monitor." It is doubtful if any naval conflict in the history of the world ever attracted such widespread attention... | |
 | John Davis Long - 1903 - 424 Seiten
...war-ships, we now have two, these two being the Warrior and her sister the Ironsides. There is now not a ship in the English Navy apart from these two that...to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor. Iron is the link between wood and steel in naval construction; its quick passage from use as the material... | |
 | John Davis Long - 1903 - 444 Seiten
...now have two, these two being the Warrior and her sister the Ironsides. There is now not a ship ha the English Navy apart from these two that it would...to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor. Iron is the link between wood and steel in naval construction; its quick passage from use as the material... | |
 | Albert Stickney - 1906 - 290 Seiten
...purposes 149 first-class war ships, we have now two, those two being the Warrior and her sister Ironsides. There is not now a ship in the English Navy apart from those two that it would not be madness to entrust to an engagement with that little Monitor." The English... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1908 - 1018 Seiten
...the London Times, " we had one hundred and forty-nine first-class warships, we have now two. . . . There is not now a ship in the English navy apart...trust to an engagement with that little Monitor." Every maritime power in the world began from this date to reconstruct its navy on the basis of the... | |
 | George Ramsey Clark, William Oliver Stevens, Carroll Storrs Alden, Herman Frederick Krafft - 1911 - 558 Seiten
...receiving the news of the battle, "Whereas we [the English] had available for immediate purposes 149 first-class warships, we have now two, these two being...trust to an engagement with that little Monitor." " As the North immediately proceeded to construct other monitors of an improved type, the danger of... | |
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Whereas we had available for immediate purposes one hundred and forty-nine first-class war-ships, we have now two, these two being the Warrior and her sister Ironside. There is not now a ship in the English navy apart from these two that it would not... 
