. Review of reviews and world's work. ism that the fighting linemust be composed of the best units, nor do theydepend upon endless platitudes with the com-mand of the sea as their perpetual are the answers to them anywhere dis-cernible in what Nelson or Lord Howe did, orin the dusty archives of libraries of naval belong to the future and not to the past,and the world needs clear, practical brains fortheir solution, and not those supersaturated withantiquated and obsolete traditions. The most immediate of all questions is whetherthere is any protection obtainable by
. Review of reviews and world's work. ism that the fighting linemust be composed of the best units, nor do theydepend upon endless platitudes with the com-mand of the sea as their perpetual are the answers to them anywhere dis-cernible in what Nelson or Lord Howe did, orin the dusty archives of libraries of naval belong to the future and not to the past,and the world needs clear, practical brains fortheir solution, and not those supersaturated withantiquated and obsolete traditions. The most immediate of all questions is whetherthere is any protection obtainable by any methodor means for the bottoms of battleships againsttorpedoes. It is widely believed, for example,that by devoting less weight to superstructureand guns, and more to strengthening the framingand bottom plates, a hull can be made which willresist such attacks. This would probably involvethe elimination of the intermediate battery andthe restriction of battleship guns to a few of thelargest caliber,—a result not impracticable in. A SUBMARINE BOAT OF THE ENGLISH NAVY. (H. M. Submarine No. 2 alongside H. M. S. Hazard, showingits peculiar bows.) view of the great celerity we have recently at-tained in working these huge cannon. It alsowould probably require the giving up of somespeed, as well as of armored protection at theends of the ship. This, at least, is one possibilitymerely by way of suggestion. Is it not timewe endeavored to think of ways of defendingbattleships before proceeding to the building,say, of 18,000-ton vessels, at a cost of eightmillions each, easily destructible by a few dol-lars worth of gun-cotton ?
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