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  | | | | | | Trafalgar | | Ship | Action |Killed|Wounded|Total|--------------------| | | | | | |Killed|Wounded|Total|


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id: 28377
title: Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles
author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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  United States, in case of a war against Spain waged upon grounds at important, that coast defences and naval force are not interchangeable THE NAVY.--THE MILITARY AND NAVAL CONDITIONS OF SPAIN THE NAVY.--THE MILITARY AND NAVAL CONDITIONS OF SPAIN might have been possible for Spain to force our entire battle fleet sea power--the combatant navy--with regard to its force and to its coal four great ships within that time was probably beyond the the army, by a state whose great colonial system could in war be day, as it here does; whereas in a United States ship of war, even been spared us had the enemy been seen by this ship, whose great speed proportion of fighting power which every type of ship of war should military or naval force whose power is not equal to assuming the case we are forced into war; a navy for defence only, in the


id: 17547
title: The Navy as a Fighting Machine
author: Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen)
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  of our naval ships produced little material effect, the skill, the sea, but the power of a navy composed of ships able to fight, manned by men trained to fight, under the command of captains skilled If one looks at a fleet of war-ships on the sea, he will be impressed in war, we always wish to exert a great force at a definite point In a country like the United States, or any other great nation, the our becoming involved in a war with a great naval nation is too The real reason for Great Britain''s having a powerful navy applies afford for operating fleets and ships, there has been a great advance military war game (_Kriegspiel_) to naval forces; playing numberless naval strategy in planning additions to our fleet for war, is to If a naval base were lacking to the more powerful fleet, as was


id: 15299
title: Drake, Nelson and Napoleon
author: Runciman, Walter Runciman, Baron
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  I have given this book the title of "Drake, Nelson and Napoleon" terrible catastrophe to the great French line-of-battle ship, he Nelson''s great talents and his victories caused society outwardly to irresistibly Nelson''s influence permeated the fleet, for no man knew Parker, at a critical moment in the battle of Copenhagen, hoisted No. 39, which meant "Leave off action." Nelson shrugged his shoulders, and exist in this state." Lord Nelson conducted the British case with the and left Nelson to hoist his flag as commander-in-chief on the _St. George_, which was not ready, and was possibly being refitted after ships, Nelson sailed for Malta, and had the good fortune to sight a continuous protection of British men-of-war was with great difficulty part, Nelson''s sailors had great faith in his naval genius. to the sailing war vessels in Nelson''s time. French fleet, and the indignity of having a man like Sir John Orde put


id: 10694
title: Sea-Power and Other Studies
author: Bridge, Cyprian, Sir
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  sea-power, and makes the study of it of great practical importance great expedition, this time by sea as well as by land, that the Grecian seas.''[31] The Turkish wars of Venice lasted a long time. of his country, or worse, because during a great naval war he plan a navy stronger in number of ships or in general efficiency of the American war, had lost to a great extent its sea-going ''War of 1812,'' the great sea-power of the British in the end sea-power, notwithstanding the first year of the war of 1812, naval officer and the man-of-war''s man of the time than a large the end of the war 39, ships of the line; the British began the A fleet of ships of the line as long as it could keep the sea, in; and command of the sea; the fleet''s position in War;


id: 33445
title: Naval Warfare
author: Thursfield, James R. (James Richard)
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  warfare will turn upon the command of the sea; a "Fleet in Being" will before their sea communications are severed by the defending naval force as war is essentially the conflict of armed force, the primary object of But sea power, that is, the advantage which a nation at war naval force is engaged each belligerent seeks to secure the command of the main fleets of the enemy into ports which are inaccessible to naval the enemy''s available naval forces--as was practically the case after way to attain those objects was to destroy the naval forces of the enemy of naval warfare, the command of the sea. the command of the sea, and having no sufficient naval force wherewithal had no command of any sea because we were not at war with any naval "command of the sea," "control of maritime communications," "the fleet


id: 34459
author: Corbin, Thomas W.
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  carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) and a little vaseline added, form a soft range and vigorous hitting power a gun needs to be as long as possible. The guns, therefore, with which the ships are armed, always form a powerful jet of air through the gun every time the breech is opened, a steel shell and then hurl the whole thing at him out of a gun. between the gun and the shell when firing takes place. case of ordinary ships where speed is not of such great importance, the It is strange to think how short a time the iron or steel ship has been illustrates the fact that in comparing the power of guns we need to wonderful ships, more particularly to the means for working the guns. through the water will not make some wave, but certain forms cause less use the orthodox term, is placed another little piece of iron called the

title:
  The Romance of War Inventions A Description of Warships, Guns, Tanks, Rifles, Bombs, and Other Instruments and Munitions of Warfare, How They Were Invented & How They Are Employed


id: 40958
author: Dana, Richard Henry
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  yard-arm, and lead through a single block at the mast-head, and set up other end seized to the yard, crossing the foot-rope. is through the lower cap, cast off the end of the mast-rope, letting is no rope of any kind round the yard-arm.) Reeve the lifts and braces, reeve a heel-rope through a block at the jib-boom end, and bend it to reeve the yard-rope through the sheave-hole of the topgallant mast, yard-rope through a jack-block at the mast-head, unhook the tye, cast TO SET A TOPGALLANT SAIL OR ROYAL.--Haul home the lee sheet, having one head yards, keeping the sails full, board fore tack and aft the sheet, studdingsail, brace up the head yards, haul forward the fore tack, and A rope or tackle, going from the yard-arms to the mast-head, to A set of ropes reaching from the mast-heads to the vessel''s

title:
  The Seaman''s Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service


