h-bore. While some of these guns hadabout as large a bore as the guns of to-day, no com-parison could be made as to their effectiveness. All are familiar with the famous battle between theMerrimac and Monitor in the Civil War of theUnited States. Mr. John R. Spears thus describes thearmament of the… … United States submarine torpedo-boat Plunger. In tli,e early nineties certain inventorswere attracting the attention of the governments of the world by their claims that they could,make boats so that they would dive under the water, approach au enemys war-shiij and dischargea torpedo against it…
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