ship-propulsion

Updated: May 25, 2025

The revolution in the constructive arts during the last half-century, which has also been a period of but little-interrupted naval peace, and the universal adoption of mechanical appliances, both for ship-propulsion and for many minor services mere matériel being thereby raised in the general estimation far above really more important matters makes the danger mentioned more menacing in the present age than it has ever been before.

Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge - Sea-Power and Other Studies