Identifier: railroadengineer63newy (find matches)
Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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he construction of the InJlcxibU.The danger attaching to such badly protected ends as shepossesses was also strikingly exemplified at Alexandria,where an officer was killed just outside the citadel, al-though below at the time, and where the ship was hulledeffectively several times, though it is needless to say thecitadel was not penetrated. The armament of the InJicxibU consists of four i6-in.,So-ton muzzle-loading guns in the two turrets, and eight4-in. breech-loading steel guns, and 2t G. F. and machineguns within and upon the superstructure. The 4-in. gunsare an afterthought. They do not form a properly consti-tuted auxiliary battery, as they are not contained in pro-tected stations of any sort. Moreover, there is no properroom for them, and in some cases they would interferewith the fighting of the turret guns, if rapid fire w-ere beingcarried on in the heat of action. Most ingenious arrange- Vol. LXIII, No. 9.) ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 421 HXM PIZ or CO > H rm(/) z •nr MX CO rn
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422 THE RAILROAD AND I -J (September. 1889.

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