Shipbuilding in iron and steel / a practical treatise . . Chap. XXI. Armour Plating. 485. Fig. 263. was never able to join in that censure myself, and when it became my duty toconsider, with the Controller of the Navy and his officers, how the Belle-rophon might best be built in this respect, we ven-tured to adhere to the reduced thickness of woodbacking and the increased thickness of armour, not-withstanding the outcry against them. I am happyto be able to state what, perhaps, many gentlemenpresent may not yet have heard (for it is ill news thatflies apace, and not good news), viz.,—that all
Shipbuilding in iron and steel / a practical treatise . . Chap. XXI. Armour Plating. 485. Fig. 263. was never able to join in that censure myself, and when it became my duty toconsider, with the Controller of the Navy and his officers, how the Belle-rophon might best be built in this respect, we ven-tured to adhere to the reduced thickness of woodbacking and the increased thickness of armour, not-withstanding the outcry against them. I am happyto be able to state what, perhaps, many gentlemenpresent may not yet have heard (for it is ill news thatflies apace, and not good news), viz.,—that all thegloomy and disparaging comparisons which were drawnbetween the Warrior and Minotaiu- targets haverecently proved to be in error, it having been discoveredthat what is known as 2 A powder was used withtwo out of three rounds of 150 lbs. cast-iion sphericalshot, which vrere fired from the lOHnch gun, at theMinotaiu- target, the effect of using this powderhaving been to raise the striking velocity of the shotfrom 1,620 feet to 1,7M feet per second. The changein the powder was made (
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