 ... our expenditure on individual ships, and to do this we must dispense with armour. It might, perhaps, be rash entirely to abandon armour so long as other nations continued to use it, because nothing but the experience of an actual war would remove...  Marine Engineer and Motorship Builder - Page 2441882Full view - About this book
 | Marine engineering - 1882 - 648 pages
...afford to possess unless we vastly reduced our expenditure on individual ships, and to do this \ve must dispense with armour. It might, perhaps, be rash...considering the indisputable value of a numerous fleet cf swift and powerfully-armed ships, built with a view of obtaining the maximum amount of unarmoured... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1882 - 670 pages
...worn out, while an ironclad cannot be prevented from becoming obsolete a few years after completion. " It might perhaps be rash entirely to abandon armour...indisputable value of a numerous fleet of swift and powerfully armed ships built with a view of obtaining the maximum amount of unarmoured defence, and... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1882 - 780 pages
...worn out, while an ironclad cannot be prevented from becoming obsolete a few years after completion. " It might perhaps be rash entirely to abandon armour...indisputable value of a numerous fleet of swift and powerfully armed ships built with a view of obtaining the maximum amount of unarmoured defence, and... | |
 | Engineering - 1882 - 566 pages
...ships, and to do this we must dispense with armor. It might, perhaps, be rash entirely to abandon armor, so long as other nations continued to use it, because nothing but the experince of an actual war would remove all question as to its possible utility; but considering the... | |
 | United States. Office of Naval Intelligence, William Bainbridge-Hoff - Naval tactics - 1884 - 224 pages
...projectiles. It might, perhaps, be rash entirely to abandon armor so long as other nations continued to nse it, because nothing but the experience of an actual...built with a view of obtaining the maximum amount of unarmored defense, and considering that such vessels, unlike armor-clads, could never grow much out... | |
 | Naval history - 1884 - 412 pages
...to abandon armor so long as other nations continued to nse it, because nothing but the expérience of an actual war would remove all question as to its...built with a view of obtaining the maximum amount of uuarmored defense, and considering that such vessels, unlike armor-dads, could never grow much out... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1882 - 510 pages
...long as other nations continue to use it, because nothing but the experience of an actual war will remove all question as to its possible utility ; but...powerfullyarmed ships, built with a view of obtaining tho maximum amount of unarmoured defence, and considering that such vessels, unlike armour-clads, can... | |
 | Military art and science - 1882 - 530 pages
...with armour. It might, perhaps, be rash entirely to abandon armour so long as other nations continue to use it, because nothing but the experience of an actual war will remove all question as to its possible utility ; but considering the indisputable value of a numerous... | |
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