Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . SECTION AND PLAN OF THK SECTION AND PLAN OF THE SHANNON. sively and defensively, but with no ne-cessity for, and no pretensions whateverto, sea-going- qualities. It is scarcely tobe sup])osed that four vessels having suchan origin could be expected to take theirplace as sea-going ships of the Britishnavy; nor could they, either, for reasonsalready suggested, be expected to possessany high qualities as vessels for the de-fense of That land round whose resounding coastsThe rough sea circles. The Admiralty which ordered
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . SECTION AND PLAN OF THK SECTION AND PLAN OF THE SHANNON. sively and defensively, but with no ne-cessity for, and no pretensions whateverto, sea-going- qualities. It is scarcely tobe sup])osed that four vessels having suchan origin could be expected to take theirplace as sea-going ships of the Britishnavy; nor could they, either, for reasonsalready suggested, be expected to possessany high qualities as vessels for the de-fense of That land round whose resounding coastsThe rough sea circles. The Admiralty which ordered their con-struction may possibly be able to statewhy they built them, but even that is notat all certain. One of the evil results ofmean economies in national enterprises inordinary times is extravagant paid aimlessexpenditure in times of necessity. A later example of this kind of expendi-ture under very similar circumstances wasfurnished during Lord Beaconsfields ad-ministration, when war with Russia seem-ed likely to occur. Again the insuffi-ciency of the navy was strongly felt, andagain publi
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