...expended in clothing ships with outside armour, because this feature of protection against the gun-attack had not been submitted from time to time to the independent judgment of competent critics. Ho considered that " the evidence of the superiority of the gun, and the development of the efficacy...

...some excuse. But he contended that the evidence of the superiority of the gun, and the developments of the efficacy of the ram and the torpedo had deprived...late years to continue to fight the losing game of armour against guns. So late as 1881 the general view as expressed by the late Signor Erin, the celebrated...

...expended in clothing ships with outside armour, because this feature of protection against the gun-attack had not been submitted from time to time to the independent...late years to continue to fight the losing game of armour against guns." He complained that the Admiralty had treated the ram and torpedo attack as secondary,...

...foresight. . . .But he contended that the evidence of the superiority of the gun, and the developments of the efficacy of the ram and the torpedo had deprived...late years to continue to fight the losing game of armour against guns." "The great naval tactician, Sir Howard Douglas, in 1858, published a book entitled...