A Brief Story of the Development of the Warship that was Propelled by both Sails and Steam--The Remarkable Floating Battery of 1814-- Barron’s Idea of a Ram--The Stevens Floating Battery--Ericsson’s Screw Propeller--Stockton and the First Screw Warship--Experiments with Great Guns--Discoveries of Bomford and Rodman--Practical Work by Dahlgren--A Comparison of Yankee Frigates with a Class of British Ships “Avowedly Built to Cope” with them--The Condition of the _Personnel_. Lincoln’s Proclamation--It was Something of a Task to Close 185 Inlets and Patrol 11,953 Miles of Sea-beaches, especially with the Force of Ships in Hand--One Merchant’s Notion of the Efficiency of Thirty Sailing Vessels-…
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