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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 526

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LING ON THE WAR-PATH Eminent naval authorities have stated that thecoaling of great battle-ships at sea while underhalf-speed, a system devised and perfected byAmerican inventors and mechanics, increases themobility and efficiency of such vessels by a largepercentage. Exhaustive sea-trials of this… … ON A BATTLE-SHIP WHICH IS BEING COALED AT SEA. in any sea where it is safe to keep the colliersfore-hatches uncovered. Over eighty tons of coalper hour have been so transferred. The arrangement is simple, although the me-chanical details show great ingenuity. The bat-tle-ship takes the collier in…

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