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... feet high and without embrasures . The battery , being manned exclusively by citizen volunteers from the town , repelled a persevering attack of a sloop - of - war , causing serious loss and damage , but suffering none . The only other ...
... feet high and without embrasures . The battery , being manned exclusively by citizen volunteers from the town , repelled a persevering attack of a sloop - of - war , causing serious loss and damage , but suffering none . The only other ...
Pàgina 165
... feet of timber ; and there can be no greater mistake than supposing that by thickening the bulwarks of vessels - of - war , or fitting up steam batteries with shot - proof sides , the effects of land batteries are to be annulled , or in ...
... feet of timber ; and there can be no greater mistake than supposing that by thickening the bulwarks of vessels - of - war , or fitting up steam batteries with shot - proof sides , the effects of land batteries are to be annulled , or in ...
Pàgina 237
... feet long , and from 90 to 150 feet wide - the bottom to be as nearly flat as the best tested principles of naval architecture will allow , consistently with the great weight of timber and metal to be pro- vided for , with the requisite ...
... feet long , and from 90 to 150 feet wide - the bottom to be as nearly flat as the best tested principles of naval architecture will allow , consistently with the great weight of timber and metal to be pro- vided for , with the requisite ...
Pàgina 277
... feet , from the spot in which the shot is to be received . In the ship , there are , besides , many points exposed that may be called vital points . By losing her rudder , or portions of her rigging , or of her spars , she may become ...
... feet , from the spot in which the shot is to be received . In the ship , there are , besides , many points exposed that may be called vital points . By losing her rudder , or portions of her rigging , or of her spars , she may become ...
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... feet at low water and twelve feet at high water . A permanent work is proposed for the defence of this harbor , of the class of that constructed on Grande Terre island , Barrataria bay . Its estimated cost is three hundred thousand ...
... feet at low water and twelve feet at high water . A permanent work is proposed for the defence of this harbor , of the class of that constructed on Grande Terre island , Barrataria bay . Its estimated cost is three hundred thousand ...
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