Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 37
prises a lieutenant, whocommands, a sub-lieutenant, a gunner, an engi-neer-officer, and sixteen deck and stoke-hold hands.The men are all specially trained in their duties,the seamen in gunnery and torpedo-work, theengine-room artificers and stokers in the care ofthe delicate machinery and boilers… … TORPEDO-BOAT. way. The ward-room differs from the gun-room inits staid and sober quiet, except when some youngofficers, but recently promoted from the latter mess,show a liveliness popularly considered by their these guns, which may be considered as the aux-iliary armament of a torpedo-boat, are…
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