4A
acce
along
4
these coasts.
that the Ports of the
other Colonies must
ources to secure themselves
tile cruizers; deriving
next advantage of
Ron a
large scale, and
in as it is able to afford
nice, but dependent
· for purely
aking
local defence
Then recommendation
these considerations in
I cases himited their
which in their opinion the attack to which
Et one ordinary probabilly
cauce
The armament
ommittee creesisted of
ques -
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The yin ytou quer,
weapon
than would
though
a less powerful
Ordinarily
be and for
Coast defence is still a formidable quii -
It will pierce with its 112th. Shell iron plates Exceeding 8th in thickness at 1000 gards,
12
that
at 2000. It seems scarcely probable Cruizers protected with heavier armour than this would be likely under present circumstances
to visit distant coasts.
The 64th wrought iron free of 64 at firing
battering
thell
дни
a
of gots weight and double talk
of the is also a powerful and accurate
and though not regarded auxiliary que,
Au Armour
Guercing gun,
as
is capable of penetrating
non plates sacceding 5th in thickness at 100074.
while against unarmoured ships its fire
would be
вечер
effective, as well as
against
armoured bestels.
64 for 32
the semprotected parts of
Се
But the converted by 8th of 58 cat which it
is proposed to substitute for both these grus
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