Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 269
thewhole of an opposing fleet oneby one, even as the pugilistwould take the lighter weightsone by one. But the horse-trotting, fire-fighting, Americanstop-watch practice is also in theNavy, and it was realized that ifthese big guns could be fired fourtimes as fast, it would be verynearly the same… … From photograph by H. R. Jackson. AFTER TURRET OF THE NEBRASKA, WHICH HOLDSTHE RECORD OF TWENTY SHOTS, TWENTY HITS INTWO MINUTES, FIFTY-FOUR SECONDS. of the men who fought and won that famous andeffective sea-fight. At that battle, however, theefficiency of our gunners was only from two tofour per…
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