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Farragut ordered his wooden vessels to run her down. Three succeeded in ramming her squarely. She reeled under the tremendous blows, and her gunners could not keep their feet. A monitor sent a fifteen-inch ball through her stern. Her smoke-stack and steering-chains were shot away, and several port shutters jammed.
The Chickasaw succeeded in getting under her stern, and a fifteen-inch shot from the Manhattan broke through her iron plating and heavy wooden backing, though the missile itself did not enter the vessel. "Immediately after the collision with the flag-ship, I directed Captain Drayton to bear down for the ram again.
A thousand guns at the master's call Schoolmaster of the guns More and more guns but never too many The gunner's skill which has life and death at stake "Grandmother" first of the fifteen-inch howitzers Soldier-mechanics War still a matter of missiles Improvements in gunnery Third rail of the battlefield The game of guns checkmating guns A Niagara of death A giant tube of steel painted in frog patches.
Admiralty secrecy must be the result of a naval dislike of publicity. Still as if they were rooted, these leviathans! How could such a shy, peaceful-looking array send out broadsides of twelve and thirteen-five and fifteen-inch shells? What a paradise for a German submarine! Each ship seemed an inviting target.
They had long six-inch guns that threw a terrible projectile. We had also some new fifteen-inch howitzers that had been brought over from England. "Grandmas" they called these guns because they were short and stout.
He is true pluck, and tries to make new machinery make up for deficient labor. He buys "bull-tongues," "cotton-shovels," "fifteen-inch sweeps," "twenty-inch sweeps," "team-ploughs with seven-inch twisters," and a "finishing sweep of twenty-six inches." He hears of other inventions, and orders them.
And perhaps it was charity to some wife and daughter who would now be free from the brutality of her Teutonic lord and master. There is nothing so easy as to be lost in No Man's Land. A compass is useless, for you may be lying on a fifteen-inch shell just covered with a few inches of earth, and the stars refuse to look down on its pain, and the sky is always thickly veiled.
Thor stretched himself out on his belly, his head and right paw well over the jam. He now put his paw a foot into the water and held it there very quietly. He could see clearly to the bottom of the stream. For a few moments he saw only this bottom, a few sticks, and the protruding end of a limb. Then a long slim shadow moved slowly under him a fifteen-inch trout.
The mystery accentuated her celebrity and almost forgotten now, while the Queen Elizabeth and the Warspite, and others of their class with their fifteen-inch guns, would be in the public eye as the latest type till a new type came. A parade of naval types was passing. One seemed to shade into the other in harmonious effect.
Spring-time in the North Sea Snow on a British Battleship Frontispiece Marines drilling on the quarterdeck of a British Battleship 24 Fifteen-inch guns on a British Battleship 25 A forest of shells in a corner of one of England's great shell filling factories 86 A light railway bringing up ammunition 87 One of the wards of a base hospital, visited by the King 132
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