Terrible.” the Naval Defense Act of 1889, when $100,000,000 was and perhaps most important of all, the excellent The poop is cut away (see diagram), thereby sacrificing voted for the construction of seventy new vessels. personnel and the undoubted esprit de corps of the Previous to the passage of… … some forty or fifty smaller and a match for any French or Rus- slower gunboats. Of these only sian battleships they might en- the ‘‘ Blake” and the ‘‘ Blenheim” ean be considered counter, but, with their excess of 2,000 tv 3,000 tons duced to 1.900 tons, and the speed is reduced from 2244…
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