Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ut as theyrange in size from about 1000 tons of dis-placement up to nearly 11,000 tons, it isobvious that many of them were built forvarious other employments. In dealingwith the full-rigged ships, we are takingaccount of types of war ships which, forall but secondary purposes, are passingaway. It fell to the lot of the presentw^riter (under the rule of Mr. Childers,then First Lord of the Admiralty, and ofAdmiral Sir Robert Spencer Robinson,then Controller of the Navy) to introducethe mastless war ship, and thus to virtual-ly
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ut as theyrange in size from about 1000 tons of dis-placement up to nearly 11,000 tons, it isobvious that many of them were built forvarious other employments. In dealingwith the full-rigged ships, we are takingaccount of types of war ships which, forall but secondary purposes, are passingaway. It fell to the lot of the presentw^riter (under the rule of Mr. Childers,then First Lord of the Admiralty, and ofAdmiral Sir Robert Spencer Robinson,then Controller of the Navy) to introducethe mastless war ship, and thus to virtual-ly terminate what had certainly been forEngland a glorious period, viz., that ofthe taunt-masted, full-rigged, and ever-beautiful wooden line-of-battle ship. Itis now, alas I but too appaient (from whathas gone before) that in virtually termi-nating that period, and opening the era of * This is not strictly true of quite all the shipsnamed, but it probably will be true erelong,, asnone of them have more than a light auxiliary rig,and that will probably be THE devastation. 340 HAEPER^S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. the steam and steel fig-hting engine, wewere also introducing- an era in whichfantastic and feeble people might but tooeasily convert what ought to have beenthe latest and greatest glory of Englandinto her direct peril, and possibly evenher early overthrow. The first British iron-clad (neglectingthe floating batteries of 1854) was theWarrior, a handsome ship 380 feet long,furnished with steam-power, and providedwith masts, spars, and a large spread ofcanvas. Her ends were unprotected byarmor, and her steering gear consequent-ly much exposed. She w^as succeeded bya long series of full-rigged iron-clads, allof them supplied Avith steam-power like-wise, the series continuing down to thepresent time. The little dependence whichis now placed in the British navy uponthe use of sail-power in armored shipswill be seen, however, when it is statedthat of all the ships protecte
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