A Treatise on Naval GunneryJ. Murray, 1855 - 645 Seiten |
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Seite 100 - The enemy, from the smoothness of the water, and the impossibility of our reaching him with our carronades, and the little apprehension that was excited by our fire, which had now become much slackened, was enabled to take aim at us as at a target ; his shot never missed our hull, and my ship was cut up in a manner which was, perhaps, never before witnessed...
Seite 297 - Every rocket is fitted with a fuze, screwed into the base of the shell. The fuze is as long as the size of the shell will admit of, so as to leave sufficient space between the end of it and the inner surface of the shell, for putting in the bursting powder ; and the end of the fuze is cupped, to serve as a guide in the insertion of the boring bit.
Seite 501 - ... artillery from keeping the field. Shrapnel shells will, undoubtedly, still prove an overpowering antagonist of infantry acting in swarms, en tirailleur, in the manner in which it is proposed to employ infantry armed with long-range rifle-muskets.
Seite 348 - Ibs. ; — from 8-inch shell guns of 65 and 60 cwt., with hollow shot of 56 Ibs.), and did but little injury to the work. At 4SO yards, 250 shot, shells, and hollow shot were fired. A small breach was formed in the facing of the outer wall, of extremely bad masonry, and considerable damage done to the embrasures and other portions of the wall ; but no decisive result was obtained — no practicable breach formed, by which the work might be assaulted, taken, and effectually destroyed, although 640...
Seite 448 - Washington in the years 1845, 1847, and 1848, to determine the fitness of gun-cotton as a substitute for gunpowder in the military service, show : 1. Explosive cotton burns at 380° Fahr., therefore it will not set fire to gunpowder when burnt in a loose state over it. 2. The projectile force of explosive cotton, with moderate charges, in a musket or cannon, is equal to that of about twice its weight of the best gunpowder. 3. When compressed by hard ramming, as in filling a fuze, it burns slowly....
Seite 2 - American war than to all the battles of Napoleon, and began by admitting that Great Britain had " entered with too great confidence on war with a marine much more expert than that of any of our European enemies.
Seite 566 - Their Lordships having had under their consideration the propriety and expediency of establishing a permanent corps of seamen to act as Captains of Guns, as well as a Depot for the instruction of the officers and seamen of His Majesty's Navy in the theory and practice of Naval Gunnery, at which a uniform system shall be observed and communicated throughout the Navy, have directed, with a view to the formation of such establishment, that a proportion of intelligent, young and active seamen shall be...
Seite 495 - ... Minie bullet, originally adopted with the Minie musquets, having been altered from an inconvenient form, and a compound of lead and iron, requiring great care in the preparation, to a simple form of lead only. 6. An indirect advantage of the new rifled musket is, that any of the improvements, that are constantly being made in the form and composition of elongated projectiles, will be more easily adapted to a barrel of this diameter than to one of the former size. This being the state of the case,...
Seite 309 - He would repeat that this was a singular instance, in the achievement of which undoubtedly great skill was manifested, but which was also connected with peculiar circumstances, which they could not hope always to occur. It must not therefore be expected, as a matter of course, that all such attempts must necessarily succeed.
Seite 100 - Phoebe, from our disabled state, was enabled, however, by edging off, to choose the distance which best suited her long guns, and kept up a tremendous fire on us, which mowed down my brave companions by the dozen.