Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . TRANSVERSE SECTION OF ONE OF THE NEW SCOUTS. guns are protected except by the thinshields usually fitted to keep off firefrom those actually working the guns. No mention has yet been made of thetroop or transport ships of the British are in all about a dozen of these, butby far the most conspicuous and importantof them are the five Indian transports whichwere built about twenty years ago, con-jointly by the Admiralty and the govern-ment of India, and ever since worked bythose departments of the state with gen
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . TRANSVERSE SECTION OF ONE OF THE NEW SCOUTS. guns are protected except by the thinshields usually fitted to keep off firefrom those actually working the guns. No mention has yet been made of thetroop or transport ships of the British are in all about a dozen of these, butby far the most conspicuous and importantof them are the five Indian transports whichwere built about twenty years ago, con-jointly by the Admiralty and the govern-ment of India, and ever since worked bythose departments of the state with gen- 356 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY eral satisfaction. One of these, the Jiiimia,is illustrated in the annexed figure. Sosatisfied was the late Director of Trans-ports, Sir William R. Mends, , withthe services of these ships tliat, before re-tiring from his office, he informed thewriter that if he had to assist in the con-struction of a new fleet of such transportshe would desire but a single improvementin them, as working ships, and that wasthe raising of the lower deck one foot, inorder to increase to that extent the stow-age of the holds. In tlie early part of this article the writermade reference to the influence exertedupon Euiopean ship-building by the inci-dents of the American civil war. He willconclude by a reference to an influence to accompany them on their annual officialvisit of inspection to her Majestys dock-yards. On the way from Chatham toSheerness in the Admiralty yacht, thewriter had a most instructive conversationwith the Admiral as to the results of hispractical experience of naval warfare att
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