. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. GREAT HARRY. It is 115 feet in length, and weighs not less than1500 tons. How the great English war-ship Harry Gracea Dieu could ever have stood upright under sucha mass of lofty cabins and top-hamper as she ispictured with is a marvel; the drawing* of herbow alone, shown upon this page, indicates butlittle stability. Nor do the bows of several more. HARRY GR.\CE A DIEU. of the large ships of that age show any more sea-worthiness. The Greek and the Roman galleys when com-pared with the ships of the middle ages shownot o
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. GREAT HARRY. It is 115 feet in length, and weighs not less than1500 tons. How the great English war-ship Harry Gracea Dieu could ever have stood upright under sucha mass of lofty cabins and top-hamper as she ispictured with is a marvel; the drawing* of herbow alone, shown upon this page, indicates butlittle stability. Nor do the bows of several more. HARRY GR.\CE A DIEU. of the large ships of that age show any more sea-worthiness. The Greek and the Roman galleys when com-pared with the ships of the middle ages shownot only greater stability but fitness for manyuses besides that of merely cutting the water. Inone we find at the waters edge a sheaf of twelvehuge swords or prongs for tearing an enemy atthe water-line, while above are two iron spear- cealed crew, and shaped either to smash in bul-warks, or to hook on to or cut the enemys rig-ging. From the platform above archers coulddischarge their arrows, or repel boarders. Other war-galleys were provided with cata-pults, from which great masses of stone or mar-ble shot were hurled upon the enemys ship oramid his rowers. Some of the larger ships car-ried great cranes, which, being lowered to anopposing ship, lifted with great grappling-ironsher bow or stern high enough in air to render herhelpless for attack or defense. These machines,called corvi, were invented by the famous en-gin
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