Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ships. It has been stated that on the morning preceding the battle between the Monitor and the iron-plated Merrimac the fighting naval force of Great Britain consisted of over two hundred ships, and that on the evening of the same day it boastedonly two—the Warrior and her sister ironclad. This drastic reduction was on account of the proved superiority of ironclads over wooden ships, as shown by the battle between the two American vessels. In a modified degree, the same state of aftairs obtained when Great Britain commissioned her first dreadnought ten years ago. That vessel, bearing the name Dreadnought, established a FIGHTING SHIPS 21 classification that compelled all previous battle-ships to be known as pre-dreadnoughts; and after a short time, when still larger calibered and more numerous guns, coupled with greater speed and ships designed, or improved, upon the now famous first dreadnought. This first ship carried a total of ten 12-inch guns, in five turrets, three of the turrets being
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THE U.S. SUPER-DREADNOGHT NEW YORK MAKING 23 KNOTS AN HOUR. NOTE BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ON SNAP-SHOTTING A DREADNOUGHT COMING AT FULL SPEED. I knew the course off Rockland, Maine, which the New York had been ordered to cover on her high-speed trial, and early in the morning Iset out in my motor-boat from Rockland to intercept her. After we had bobbed about for several hours on the long Atlantic swell, the New York appeared on the horizon, making more than 23 knots an hour. When she had reached a point about half a mile from us, we ran directly across her bow and stopped the engine, so that there should be no vibration to cloud the picture. I took my camera and stood on the stern of our little craft to wait until the last moment at which escape would be possible. As the huge ship plowed nearer and nearer, lifting the swells for 50 yards on either side of her Into mammoth bow-waves, I was seized by an almost irresistible impulse to snap the shutter and escape ; but my training in fa

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