. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . vessels which, fully armed and coaled for 2000miles of voyage, drew only seven feet of water, DISCUSSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS:â1855. 473 ran fourteen knots an hour, and carried two long68 and two Icing 32 pounder guns, so working ontraverses as to be fired in any direction. These,and other facts, taught the Admiralty that smallvessels would be of great value in such seas as theBaltic and the Euxine, having the properties oflight draught, great speed, and carrying a smallnumber of very powerful guns. Such beg
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . vessels which, fully armed and coaled for 2000miles of voyage, drew only seven feet of water, DISCUSSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS:â1855. 473 ran fourteen knots an hour, and carried two long68 and two Icing 32 pounder guns, so working ontraverses as to be fired in any direction. These,and other facts, taught the Admiralty that smallvessels would be of great value in such seas as theBaltic and the Euxine, having the properties oflight draught, great speed, and carrying a smallnumber of very powerful guns. Such began tobe constructed in the autumn of 1854, under thedesignations of steam gun-boats and dispatch-boats,all moved alike by screw-propellers. Hence arosethe numerous small-craft to which names weregiven supposed to indicate their aggressive quali-tiesâ Wrangler, Viper, Snapper, Belter, Pincher,Biter, Boxer, Cracker, Swinger, Grinder, Bantercr,Bouncer, Confoundcr, Griper, Growler, Spanker,Tickler, Clinker, Teazer; or some Ariel or Arrow-like designation indicative of swiftness. Each. Gun-boat. carried either two, three, or four heavy of those first constructed were too heavyin draught and too slow in movement; butimprovements became quickly introduced. Themortar-vessels, mortar-rafts, or mortar-boatsâsuchas the Blazer, Flamer, Havock, Mastiff, tire, usedin 1854, or advocated in 1855âdiffered little fromthose employed in former wars: each consistingof a boat formed expressly for carrying a mortar,whence shells of large size might be fired at aconsiderable angle of elevation. In addition toall these, attention became directed to the con-struction of iron vessels of enormous strength,which, under the name of floating-batteries, mightcannonade forts without being injured by a can-nonade in return. France and England commencedthe construction of such ponderous machines aboutthe same time; the French batteries rendered goodservice at Kinburn; but the first constructed byth
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