 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1911 - 336 страници
...broadside ships Warrior and Black Prince} . . . There is not a ship in the English navy apart from those two that it would not be madness to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor." The type of hull of the latter has now been wholly discarded, but the revolving turret remains the basic... | |
 | Charles Lester Barstow - 1912 - 240 страници
...fate of empires, were at once universally condemned as out of date. Rams and iron-clads were in future to decide all naval warfare. In this battle old things...were produced in France, which had but one sea-going iron-clad, La Gloire, and this one, like the Warrior, was only protected amidships. The Emperor NaBurning... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1917 - 504 страници
...dependence upon "wooden walls." When the account of it reached England, the London Times declared : There is not now a ship in the English navy, apart from these two [the Warrior and the Ironside], that it would not be madness to trust to an engagement with that little... | |
 | George Ramsey Clark, William Oliver Stevens, Carroll Storrs Alden, Herman Frederick Krafft - 1927 - 608 страници
...now two. these two being the Warrior and her sister Ironside. There is not now a ship in the Englisn Navy, apart from these two, that it would not be madness...trust to an engagement with that little Monitor." ll As the North immediately proceeded to construct other monitors of an improved type, the danger of... | |
 | Henry Goddard Leach - 1926 - 620 страници
...would be very doubtful." The truth of the second prophecy is shown in the comment of the London Times: "There is not now a ship in the English navy apart from these two (the iron-clad Warrior and her sister Ironside) that it would not be madness to trust to an engagement... | |
 | Richard H. Webber - 1969 - 58 страници
...warships, we have now two, these two being the Warrior and her sister Ironside [sic, Black Prince]. There is not now a ship in the English Navy, apart...to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor. However, to put this observation in proper perspective, one must recall that Great Britain then had... | |
 | United States. Naval History Division - 1970 - 82 страници
...of two British ironclads, Warrior and Black Prince, the Royal Navy did not have a single war vessel "that it would not be madness to trust to an engagement with the little Monitor." The day of wood and sail had ended. A new era had come for seapower. 4. EVOLUTION... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 страници
...have now two, these two being the Warrior and her sister Ironside [Britain's experimental ironclads]. There is not now a ship in the English navy apart...madness to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor."5 Of more immediate interest in Washington, the Union fleet at Hampton Roads was saved. For... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 страници
...have now two, these two being the Warrior and her sister Ironside [Britain's experimental ironclads]. There is not now a ship in the English navy apart...madness to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor."5 Of more immediate interest in Washington, the Union fleet at Hampton Roads was saved. For... | |
 | John V. Quarstein - 1999 - 134 страници
...the progenitor of the modern warship. It is not surprising, then, when the London Times noted that "there is not now a ship in the English navy apart from these two [HMS Warrior and HMS Ironsides] that it would not be madness to trust to an engagement with that little... | |
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Whereas we had available for immediate purposes one hundred and forty-nine first-class war-ships, we have now two, these two being the Warrior and her sister Ironside. There is not now a ship in the English navy apart from these two that it would not... 
