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 250
al as fighting ships. Similarly, the second-class cruisers of the same period,though their moderate displacement of four or fivethousand tons and their speed of almost twenty knotsmade them remarkably mobile and enabled them incertain duties, such as scouting, to do good and usefulwork, yet as… … THE STEAM MAN-OF-WAR begun to be obsolete, not by reason of any defects inconstruction, but because in the march of time theyhave ceased to be fighting units. To this class belongthe Dryad of the year 1893, the Halcyon, 1894, andalso the Harrier. With a length of only 250 feet anda draught of the…
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