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id: 27244
author: Edelsheim, Franz, Freiherr von
title: Operations Upon the Sea: A Study
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  The interior arrangements of a steamer to be used for troop transport must be planned according to law. It should be so managed that a line of land operations would be in close juncture with the fleet, through which we would be in a position to seize, within a short time, many of these important and rich cities, to interrupt their means of supply, disorganize all governmental affairs, assume control of all useful buildings, confiscate all war and transport supplies, and lastly, to impose heavy indemnities.


id: 51748
author: Fulton, Robert
title: Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions
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  FINIS _Number and Nature of Ordnance for each of the Ships in the British Navy_ ------+-------+-----------------------------------++------------------- |Number | Number of guns of each nature || Carronades Rates | of +----+----+----+----+----+----+-----++----+----+----+---- | guns | 42 | 32 | 24 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 6 || 32 | 24 | 18 | 12 ------+-------+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----++----+----+----+---- 1st --| 100 | 28 | - | 28 | - | 30 | - | 18 || 2 | 6 | - | - | | | | | | | | || | | | 2d --| 98 | - | 28 | - | 30 | 40 | - | - || 2 | - | 6 | - | | | | | | | | || | | | {| 80 | - | 26 | - | 26 | - | 24 | 1} || | | | - {| 74 | - | 28 | - | 28 | - | 18 | -} || 2 | - | 6 | - 3d {| 70 | - | 28 | - | 28 | - | 14 | -} || | | | - {| 64 | - | - | 26 | 26 | - | 12 | - || - | 2 | 6 | - | | | | | | | | || | | | 4th {| 60 | - | - | 24 | - | 26 | - | 10 || - | - | - | - {| 50 | - | - | 22 | - | 22 | - | 6 || - | 6 | - | 6 | | | | | | | | || | | | {| 44 | - | - | - | 20 | 22 | - | 6 || - | - | 8 | - 5th {| 36 | - | - | - | 26 | 2 | 8 | - || 8 | - | - | - {| 32 | - | - | - | - | 26 | - | 6 || - | 6 | - | - | | | | | | | | || | | | {| 28 | - | - | 8 | - | - | 24 | 4 || - | 6 | - | - 6th {| 24 | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | 2 || - | 2 | 6 | - {| 20 | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | - || - | - | - | 8 | | | | | | | | || | | | Sloops| 18 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 || - | - | - | 8 ------+-------+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----++----+----+----+---- For Notes on Vessels of War of the United States see pages 6 and 7. 600 men at 12 to a boat, would man 50 boats, 50 boats at one hundred dollars each $5,000 50 Torpedoes complete, one hundred and fifty dollars each, powder included 7,500 50 harpoon-guns, thirty dollars each 1,500 200 blunderbusses, twenty dollars each 4,000 100 pair of pistols, fifteen dollars a pair 1,500 600 cutlasses, three dollars each 1,800 Contingencies 3,000 ------ Total $24,300 The pay and provisions for six hundred men, whether in an 80 gun ship or in Torpedo boats, may be estimated, for the present, to amount to the same sum annually.


id: 37328
author: Stables, Gordon
title: Medical Life in the Navy
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  About six o'clock on a beautiful Wednesday evening, early in the month of May, our gallant and saucy frigate turned her bows seaward and slowly steamed away from amidst the fleet of little boats that--crowded with the unhappy wives and sweethearts of the sailors--had hung around us all the afternoon. A moving picture, a living panorama; a bright sky sprinkled with a few fleecy cloudlets, over a blue sea all in motion before a fresh breeze of wind; a fleet of little boats astern, filled with picturesquely dressed seamen and women waving handkerchiefs; the long breakwater lined with a dense crowd of sorrowing friends, each anxious to gain one last look of the dear face he may never see more.


id: 33445
author: Thursfield, James R. (James Richard)
title: Naval Warfare
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  This is not always possible, because if the naval forces of the two belligerents are very unequally matched, it is always open to the weaker of the two to decline the conflict by keeping his main fleets in ports unassailable by naval force alone, and seeking to reduce the superiority of his adversary by assailing him incessantly with torpedo craft. They may merely be waiting in a position unassailable by naval force alone until the blockading forces are so weakened through incessant torpedo attack, through the wear and tear inflicted on them by the nature of the service on which they are engaged, through stress of weather, through the periodical necessity which compels even the best found ships to withdraw temporarily from the blockade for the purposes of repair, refit, and replenishment of their stores, and through the fatigue imposed on their officers and crews by the incessant vigilance which a blockade requires as to afford them a favourable opportunity of challenging a decision in the open.


id: 15749
author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
title: The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
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  But, with the strait, time has introduced a factor of which he could not dream,--a great nation midway between the West he knew and the East he sought, spanning the continent he unwittingly found, itself both East and West in one. There have been great wars, certainly; but, nevertheless, external peace has been the general characteristic of that period of development, during which men have been occupied in revolutionizing the face of their own countries by means of the new powers at their disposal.


id: 29685
author: Domville-Fife, Charles W. (Charles William)
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title:
  Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy

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  Secondly, there were various systems of mine defences in this area, and, although not defined by a chain of buoys, the passage north from Newcastle to the Scottish islands was, in actual fact, maintained by a vast organisation of patrols and sweepers, but over this section of sea supply ships for the Grand Fleet were nearly always under escort. 5.--Diagram illustrating method of attack by C.M.B. on surface ship (or submarine on surface).


id: 10694
author: Bridge, Cyprian, Sir
title: Sea-Power and Other Studies
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  Calculations founded on the experience of manoeuvres show that in war time ships would require nearly three times the quantity used in peace. The experience of naval war, down to the close of that in which Trafalgar was the most impressive event, led to the virtual abandonment of ships of the line[92] above and below a certain class.


id: 28178
author: Naval War College (U.S.)
title: Sound Military Decision
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sentence: 3471
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  This procedure may also have a certain psychological advantage, in that the commander may thereby avoid becoming unduly impressed by the potentialities of enemy action. First consideration of his own courses of action is especially appropriate for a commander whose mission requires him to assume the initiative, particularly when the relative fighting strength indicates that he can compel enemy action to conform to his.


id: 15076
author: Corbett, Julian Stafford
title: Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
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words: 104038
sentence: 3990
flesch: 60
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summary:
  It tells us that the most common situation in naval war is that neither side has the command; that the normal position is not a commanded sea, but an uncommanded sea. The analogy is false for two reasons, both of which enter materially into the conduct of naval war.


id: 17547
author: Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen)
title: The Navy as a Fighting Machine
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sentence: 2823
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  But surely the foolishness of such an idea would promptly disappear from the brain of any one if he would remind himself that simply because a man joins the army or navy he does not cease to be a human being, with the same emotions of fear as other men, the same sensitiveness to pain, the same dread of death, and the same horror of leaving his family unsupported after his death. It seems clear that such a thing would be a national disaster, for any loss of money to one man always means a loss of money or its equivalent to other men besides.


id: 16695
author: Corbett, Julian Stafford
title: Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.
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  'Some may say,' he writes, 'that at sea it is not possible to order ships and tactics in this way, nor to arrange beforehand so nicely for coming to the attack or bringing succour just when wanted, and that therefore there is no need to labour an order of battle since order cannot be kept. Not only do they contain the earliest known attempt to get away from the unsatisfactory method of engaging in parallel lines ship to ship, but in seeking a substitute for it they seem to foreshadow the transition from the Elizabethan idea of throwing the enemy into confusion to the eighteenth century idea of concentration on his most vulnerable part.


id: 44990
author: Sleeman, Charles William
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words: 126712
sentence: 6096
flesch: 68
summary: | vessel much shattered, and sunk | | stationary torpedoes. | River, | torpedo.
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title:
  Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare


id: 26416
author: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
title: The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2
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flesch: 72
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  They feared to build and man ships lest possession of a navy might prove an incentive to war. The value of high-pressure engines in war vessels was illustrated by the British ship Calliope, which was able to steam out to sea, and thus escaped destruction on the reefs.


id: 22305
author: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
title: The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1
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  The Legislature of Massachusetts then passed a law granting commissions to privateers, and directing the seizure of British ships. At early dawn of the day mentioned, the lookout reported five ships in the offing, and a few minutes later hailed the deck, to report them to be British ships-of-war.


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