steamboat-shafts

Updated: July 7, 2025

The Mersey Iron-Works guns are of wrought-iron, and are forged solid like steamboat-shafts, or hollow by laying up staves into the form of a barrel and welding layers of curved plates upon them until the whole mass is united. But few of these guns have been fabricated.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863