Journal - Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania (1826)
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · [Philadelphia : Franklin Institute] · leaf 371
arthat any practical results were obtained. During the action at Kinburn the French floatingbatteries, protected by four and one-half inch iron plates onseventeen inches of wood backing, were repeatedly hulledby the Russian guns, with no other result than the dentingof the plates to the extent of… … Fig. I.— Warrior target,yards the plates were badly broken up by both cast andwrought shot.f In 1861, a target representing a section of the side of thenew iron-clad ship Warrior {Fig. /), was tried at Shoeburynesswith 68-, 100- and 120-pounders, with the result that the plateswere more or less…
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