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Ironclads in Action (Volume 1); A Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895, with Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England

Ironclads in Action (Volume 1); A Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895, with Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IRONCLADS IN ACTION. CHAPTER I. The Monitor And The Merrimac. 1861 to 1862. It was the second year of the American Civil War, the struggle between the Northern, or Federal party, and the Southern, or Confederate, the one striving to maintain the Union, the other to uphold slavery and the right of the States composing the Union to complete internal autonomy. The war was one in which, from the political and physical conditions then obtaining, sea power was bound to play an enormous part, and whichever of the two combatants could secure the grasp of the sea was bound to be victorious. Perceiving this both sides turned their attention to the creation of a navy. The Southern States, devoid of manufactures and engineering works, with no shipwrights and' scarcely a single navy yard, were in no very favourable position for the development of such a force. The capture of Norfolk, Virginia, however, gave them a dock and some wooden hulls upon which to go to work. Moreover a. vast quantity of ordnance had fallen into their hands at this same place, and, included in the 1198 cannon, which they found there, were fifty-two Dahlgrens, heavy smooth-bores of a type then considered admirable.' The dearth of iron and the paucity of iron foundries made such an acquisition peculiarlyvaluable to them; indeed, it is not too much to say that it was mainly with these weapons that in the earlier days of the war their ships and forts were equipped. If the South lacked the implements with which to fight, it was not much better off in respect of trained men to handle them when improvised. There were officers in plenty, but there were no seamen, a fact which must not be forgotten when we come to the performances of their ships in battle. At the same time the officers were both able and zealous; ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217493871
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 124
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217493874
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 236 gr


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