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Updated: May 24, 2025
Then I reproached 'im for goin' to bed where 'e'd been told to go, instead o' standin' by till some one gave him entirely contradictory orders. Which is the essence o' naval discipline. "In the middle o' this argument the gunner protrudes his ram-bow from 'is cabin, an' brings it all to an 'urried conclusion with some remarks suitable to 'is piebald warrant-rank.
Their impact below the water-line was deadly, and only equaled in effect by the work of the ram-bow, the blow of the ship as a whole the last glorious, suicidal charge on an enemy that had dismounted the guns, if such could happen.
He could only surmise that she was a war-vessel from the ram-bow, a feature of the government model which had impressed him at Key West, and from the noise she was making. She quivered in a maze of flickering red flashes, and the rattling din of her rapid-fire and machine guns transcended in volume all the roadside blastings he had heard in his wanderings.
These the oncoming craft showed plainly even at seven miles' distance. Fifteen minutes later she was storming by, a half-mile to windward; a beautiful picture, long and white, with an incurving ram-bow, with buff-colored turrets and superstructure, and black guns bristling from all parts of her.
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