 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1864 - 1224 pages
...and to encounter oilier powerful batteries, with which the whole harbor of Charleston has been lined. I had hoped that the endurance of the iron-clads would...was convinced that persistence in the attack would only result in the loss of the greater portion of the irou-clad fleet, and in leaving many of them... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1867 - 676 pages
...essential to our success — I mean in their armament, or power of inflicting injury by their guns. ... I had hoped that the endurance of the ironclads would...was convinced that persistence in the attack would only result in the loss of the greater portion of the iron-clad fleet, and in leaving many of them... | |
 | United States. Navy Department - Armored vessels - 1864 - 638 pages
...and to encounter other powerful batteries, with which the whole harbor of Charleston has been lined. I had hoped that the endurance of the iron-clads would...was convinced that persistence in the attack would only result in the loss of the greater portion of the iron-clad fleet, and in leaving many of them... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1864 - 778 pages
...and to encounter other powerful batteries, with which the whole harbor of Charleston has been lined. I had hoped that the endurance of the iron-clads would...obstructions, or testing the power of the torpedoes, I wag convinced that persistence in the attack would only result in the loss of the greater portion of... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 884 pages
...hoped that the endurance of the iron-clads would have cuabled them to have borne any weight of flrc to which they might have been exposed ; but when I...less than an hour's engagement, before attempting to overcome the obstructions, or testing the power of the torpedoes, I was convinced that persistence... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...encounter other powerful batteries, with which the whole harbor of Charleston has been lined. I bad hoped that the endurance of the iron-clads would have...weight of fire to which they might have been exposed ; hut when I found that so large a portion of them were wholly or one-half disabled, by less than an... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 618 pages
...essential to our success — I mean in their armament, or power of inflicting injury by their guns. ... I had hoped that the endurance of the iron-clads would...an hour's engagement, before attempting to remove the obstructions, or testing the power of the torpedoes, I was convinced that persistence in the attack... | |
 | 1866 - 622 pages
...armament, or power of inflicting injury by their guns. ... I had hoped that the endurance of the iron-cluds would have enabled them to have borne any weight of...an hour's engagement, before attempting to remove the obstructions, or testing the power of the torpedoes, I was convinced that persistence in the attack... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - History - 1866 - 910 pages
...which the whole harbor of Charleston has been lined. I had hoped that the endurance of the iron-cloda would have enabled them to have borne any weight of...less than an hour's engagement, before attempting to overcome the obstructions, or testing the power of the torpedoes, I was convinced that persistence... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1867 - 672 pages
...essential to our success — 1 mean in their armament, or power of inflicting injury by their guns. ... I had hoped that the endurance of the ironclads would...was convinced that persistence in the attack would only result in the loss of the greater portion of the iron-clad fleet, and in leaving many of them... | |
| |
I had hoped that the endurance of the iron-clads would have enabled them to have borne any weight of fire to which they might have been exposed; but when I found that so large a portion of them were wholly or one-half disabled by less than an hour's engagement,... 
