r BY MAJOR C, FIELD, GLENMORE, ENGLAND. Although armorclad ships are generally considered keel to the first wale above her waterline. Later, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to date only from the middle of the last century, ar- According to a short paragraph in Hayden’s Dic- “pavesades” or… … tion of the armor of the FULTON’S “ DEMOLOGOS,” OF 1815. building their sides four or five feet thick, but the Saracen dromons, while heavy English guns “lashed them through and been used for the protection of ships for hundreds, Conrad of Montferrat, at the siege of Tyre in 1187, through.” But now…
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