The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution (1911)
Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company; London, Seeley and co., limited · leaf 178
an extensive rectangular vaultor casement * which reached from 2 feet below thewater-line to 7 feet above. The sides had a Humble-home or slope inwards at an angle of 35 degrees,being made of pine and oak, with externally two thick-nesses of armour-plating fastened thereto, and this hadbeen made… … S ^ o 5 § P ^ W j2 Eh a> PQ ^ O J 141 THE TURRET MAN-OF-WAR but sailing frigates. The former she sent to the bottomby ramming, and into the latter she poured such ahot fire with shells that the Federal frigate had togive in. But the next day, in Hampton Roads, therewas to be given a lesson in…
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