Excerpt from The British Navy, Vol. 3: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration In this regard Great Britain possesses overwhelming advantages in her connected series of coaling stations along the main routes of trade. Our foreign naval stations should be protected against a coup de min by local means, which need not be less efl'ectual because inexpensive. By timely care the necessity for a lavish outlay may be averted. A few well-placed earthworks, a local force of artillerymen, the men who coal the ships being ...
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Excerpt from The British Navy, Vol. 3: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration In this regard Great Britain possesses overwhelming advantages in her connected series of coaling stations along the main routes of trade. Our foreign naval stations should be protected against a coup de min by local means, which need not be less efl'ectual because inexpensive. By timely care the necessity for a lavish outlay may be averted. A few well-placed earthworks, a local force of artillerymen, the men who coal the ships being trained to assist at the guns, and a supply of torpedoes, are indispensable; and when these are provided the main duty of the navy will be, not to remain in or off the harbours, which form the bases of our naval operations, but to blockade the enemy in his own ports, and cruise at sea in search of any squadrons which may have set forth to attack our colonies or to interrupt our communications. Smaller vessels are needed, as will be hereafter shown, as auxiliaries to the powerful ships on which our efforts should be mainly concentrated: but the fighting fleet should be adapted primarily for the time of battle. N o success in secondary enterprises can be set in the balance against defeat in the decisive struggles. The minor advantages gained by the French, in seas remote from the principal theatre of war, afforded them no compensation for the defeats they sustained at Aboukir and Trafalgar. 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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