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Updated: June 29, 2025
Surtaine's eyes twinkled. "There may have been some such notion in the back of my head." "Expensive exercise. Did you do it?" "No. He had a club." "If I were running a slander-machine like the 'Clarion' I'd want six-inch armor-plate and a quick-fire battery. Well, what did you do?" "Bought the paper." "You needn't have gone down town to do that. It comes to the office." "You don't understand.
Thirty years and more passed after that epoch-making contest between the Monitor and the Merrimac before the world witnessed another battle to the death between ironclads. Theoretically, wood had long since been displaced by iron, iron by steel, and steel by specially-forged armor-plate, battleship designers struggling always to build a vessel which could withstand modern projectiles.
Although on occasions they tried to use us as tanks, it was not successful, for our armor-plate was too light. We were also employed in raiding, and in quelling Arab uprisings. This latter use threw us into close touch with the political officers. These were a most interesting lot of men. They were recruited in part from the army, but largely from civil life.
By last accounts, however, it would seem that the armor-plate would in the end have to give way to the shot; nevertheless, there were competent judges who had their doubts on the point. At the last experiment the cylindro-conical projectiles of Barbicane stuck like so many pins in the Nicholl plates.
Armor-plate was bought in a foreign market, and we actually went abroad for the plans of one our largest cruisers the Charleston. In 1885 the navy department came under the administration of Secretary William C. Whitney, and it was beginning with his years of service that the greatest progress was made.
He pointed out one rich dowager who swept past them; her breasts all but jostling out of her corsage as she walked, her stomach squeezed into a sort of armor-plate of jewels, her cheeks powdered and painted, her head weighted with false hair and a tiara of diamonds, her face like a mask of pride and scorn.
It clanged and banged and clamored and boomed and pounded its way even through the harveyized armor-plate of the Lakerim ship of sleep. Tug was the first to wake, and his heart almost stopped with horror of the time the old bell had chosen for making itself heard.
Before the latter knew that anything out of the ordinary had happened the cub was on his back and with claws and teeth was digging frantically at neck and shoulders. Warruk might as well have spared himself the exertion for the ant-eater's hide was as effective as armor-plate against such an assault.
Since that time the plants for construction have been completed and armor-plate equal to the best in the world turned out from them. Ten years of apprenticeship have taught us how to build whatever we need to carry on naval warfare.
We're both dressed in gray your clothes in particular are almost exactly the color of this armor-plate so altogether we stand a good chance of being missed." "What shall we do now?" "Nothing whatever wish we could sleep for a couple of hours, but of course there's no hope of that. Stretch out here, like that you can't rest folded up like an accordion and I'll lie down diagonally across the room.
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