 | William Conant Church - 1890 - 704 pages
...these cases the shot were delivered upon the strongest part of our roof ; and if they had struck her at water-line, where there was no protection whatever...the time just hovering between floating and sinking ; a very few tons of water through the hole made by two, or even one, well-aimed shot from the splendid... | |
 | William Conant Church - Engineers - 1890 - 336 pages
...these cases the shot were delivered upon the strongest part of our roof; and if they had struck her at water-line, where there was no protection whatever...target, and that proving invulnerable, the guns and the grins' crew the second. Now, the enormous weight of her shield and battery kept the Virginia all the... | |
 | William Conant Church - Inventors - 1892 - 334 pages
...these cases the shot were delivered upon the strongest part of our roof ; and if they had struck her at water-line, where there was no protection whatever...of paper. A fighting, wide-awake seaman makes the enemy,s water-line his first target, and that proving invulnerable, the guns and the guns, crew the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Biography - 1895 - 476 pages
...part of our roof ; and if they had struck at water-line, where there was no protection whatever (for she had no knuckle), they would have gone through her as if she had been paper. A fighting, wide-awake seaman makes the enemy's water-line his first target, and that proving... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - 1916 - 822 pages
...on the starboard side, would have brought down the shield about our ears." In these cases the shots were delivered upon the strongest part of our roof...paper. A fighting, wideawake seaman makes the enemy's ivater-line his first target and that proving invulnerable, the guns, and the guns' crew the second.... | |
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... water-line, where there was no protection whatever for the hull (for be it remembered that she had no knuckle), they would have gone through her as if she had been of paper. A fighting, wide-awake seaman makes the enemy's water-line his first target,... 