Excerpt from Naval Reform: From the French of the Late M. Gabriel Charmes Weapon, so as to bring the efficiency of each one to its maximum. These giant ships must always labour under the disadvantage of inferior speed; now, speed has become the governing quality of the man-of-war. Would it not, therefore, be advisable to replace the defensive strength at present found in ai'mour-plating by numerical superiority, by speed, and relative invulnerability, to be obtained by means of the smallest possible dimensions P The ...
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Excerpt from Naval Reform: From the French of the Late M. Gabriel Charmes Weapon, so as to bring the efficiency of each one to its maximum. These giant ships must always labour under the disadvantage of inferior speed; now, speed has become the governing quality of the man-of-war. Would it not, therefore, be advisable to replace the defensive strength at present found in ai'mour-plating by numerical superiority, by speed, and relative invulnerability, to be obtained by means of the smallest possible dimensions P The torpedo has been erroneously taken as the starting point in that naval revolution I wish to see accomplished. Certainly it furnishes a considerable argument for those who are opposed to ironclads, but division of labour had its staunch supporters in the navy long before the torpedo made its startling apparition upon the seas. I have often cited Admiral Aube as the eloquent precursor of an idea which must, ere long, prove triumphant. At the height of the rage for ironclads, he was not singular in foreseeing the time when multiplied and simpler instruments of war fare should replace them. The construction of a floating gun-carriage, the Tromblon, may have been the starting-point for the change I now advocate in naval science. Not that the Tromblon was worth much, but the trial made was a first attempt in favour of this pro gramme: to replace the ironclad, a vessel with several aims and essentially complex, very expensive, and pos sessed of very moderate speed, by a great number of special boats, gun-boats, rams, cruisers, &c., and to give to these boats, each constructed for one sole and special purpose, the greatest possible speed; in one word, to divide labour so as to improve it, and produce it cheaper. Truly the realisation of so excellent a programme at that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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