Royal Naval Exhibition, 1891: The Illustrated Handbook and Souvenir1891 - Royal Naval Exhibition - 64 pages |
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6-inch gun Arctic armament Armstrong Gallery barrel battery-deck BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR Benbow Gallery Blake board the Victory bore breech British bullets CAMPERDOWN carronades cartridge century CHAPTER Chelsea coast Compound Armour cordite cruisers cylinder of steel deck depth DISAPPEARING GUN diver diving apparatus EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE electric Elswick ENO'S FRUIT SALT explosion feet fired first-class cruisers fleet Franklin full charge HORSE-POWER hydraulic hydraulic machinery ingot interesting ironclad LADY HAMILTON loading LONDON Lord Nelson main entrance MELTONIAN Messrs metal minutes Mission Naval Exhibition Navy Nelson Gallery orlop deck picture piece port powder quick-firing guns Redoutable relics represent Ridyard rifling RIZINE RIZINE RIZINE sailor SAMUEL PLIMSOLL screw shell ships SHOOTING GALLERY shot Siebe Sloane Square station smack smokeless powder Spanish Armada square inch stand STEAMERS strain Street sword tank tests tion tons per square torpedo boat treasure turret vessel visitor wall weight wind wounded wreck
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Page 12 - When I leave your command, I become dead to the world : ' I go hence, and am no more seen.' If from poor Bowen's loss you think it proper to oblige me, I rest confident you will do it. The boy is under obligations to me ; but he repaid me by bringing me from the mole of Santa Cruz. I hope you will be able to give me a frigate to convey the remains of my carcass to England.
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Page 14 - Gustavus Adolphus, and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence. By CRL FLETCHER, MA, late Fellow of All Souls College. Oxford.
Page 2 - These consist of cheerful submission to superiors, self-respect and independence of character, kindness and protection to the weak, readiness to forgive offence, desire to conciliate the differences of others, and above all, fearless devotion to duty, and unflinching truthfulness.
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Page 61 - ... nearly 900 men. When we look at the wonderful mechanism connected with the armaments of the fighting-ships of the present day, it is difficult to conceive how such feats were accomplished with such rude weapons. With the exception of a few small brass guns, the guns were mere blocks of cast iron, the sole machining to which they were subjected consisting in the formation of the bore and the drilling of the vent A large proportion of nearly every armament consisted of carronades — a piece which...
Page 31 - YACHTING CRUISES, The Orient Company despatch some of their Steamers on Yachting Cruises of from three to six weeks, visiting the finest Fiords in NORWAY...