Shells and Shell-gunsKing & Baird, printers, 1856 - 452 sivua |
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Sivu 15 - These openings made by solid shot, however, are often easily repaired, even during an action ; but if a vessel is struck and penetrated by one of these monster shells, which carries within itself the elements of explosion, one can hardly conceive of the crashing of timbers and the havoc and destruction which must inevitably ensue. And thus the work of one shell would be more fatal and disastrous than that of many shot. In addition to this heavy armament, our national vessels have, for a few years...
Sivu 110 - ... that has been done at any time by the particular excellence of any one kind of arms ; and will perhaps fall but little short of the wonderful effects which histories relate to have been formerly produced by the first inventors of fire-arms.
Sivu 14 - Bureau has not been idle. The progress in improving, modifying, and enlarging the guns of the service has been cautious and gradual, yet steady and impressive. The experimental establishment at the Washington Navy Yard, has been for many years an admirable adjunct to the Bureau. Having at its head an officer of a high order of intellect and indefatigable energy., aided by a small corps of assistants, the Department has found it a shield of protection against the introduction of the novelties of visionary...
Sivu 16 - ... or in accordance with the suggestions of our able Ordnance Officer, tested by years of much consideration. After investigation, I unhesitatingly sustained the recommendation to fit out the new frigates with their present formidable battery. It is true the guns are very heavy, but experience and practice, and the aid of labor-saving inventions daily made, will render them as manageable as 32-pounders were twenty years ago.
Sivu 13 - Of course the case is very different in regard to the management of cannon , weighing thousands of pounds, upon a disturbed sea. In the British service they have their Gunnery Practice-Ship, where officers and men are trained to the use of cannon as thoroughly and as regularly as the soldier is drilled in the Army. We have thus far relied upon practicing at sea, and selecting from the crew for Captains of guns those who may, from experience, be found best fitted. It is amazing, indeed, that notwithstanding...
Sivu 14 - ... engines of destruction. I commend this subject to special consideration and encouragement, and have no doubt that, when enlarged and aided by the suggestions of experience, this gunnery practice-ship will prove an invaluable acquisition to the service. The recent changes in the armament of our vessels call for a somewhat detailed statement from the department on that subject.
Sivu 110 - Although our experiments have been confined to our service rifle and are yet incomplete, they confirm the great superiority claimed for this invention abroad. They show that the new weapon, while it can be loaded as readily as the ordinary musket, is at least equally effective at three times the distance. The foreign experiments indicate a still greater superiority of the new arms. These results render it almost certain that smoothbored arms will be superseded as a military weapon...
Sivu 6 - I know of no part of the service more entitled to the liberal patronage of the government than Ordnance and Practical Gunnery. If the Navy be, indeed, the " right arm of defence," as is so often repeated, it may, with great force, be added, that her guns and ordnance appliances are the main sinews and arteries, the neglect of which would soon render it feeble and palsied. Our national ship may attract admiration for the strength and beauty of her model, and the graceful ease with which she glides...
Sivu 210 - Our condition did not admit of a further pursuit ; indeed, to take possession of what we had got required exertion. Two of our ships were totally dismasted, and many of us very much crippled. We left off in admirable good plight, having sustained less loss than could be expected, considering the fire we had so long on us. We had nine men killed, and twenty two with severe wounds, a few others slightly hurt ; our masts, &c.
Sivu 13 - ... it may, with great force, be added, that her guns and ordnance appliances are the main sinews and arteries, the neglect of which would soon render it feeble and palsied. Our national ship may attract admiration for the strength and beauty of her model, and the graceful ease with which she glides on the water ; her men may be patterns of discipline, and her Officers the bravest and best ; yet all this will avail nought in the dread hour of battle, if either her guns refuse to he faithful messengers,...