Fort Totten, N. Y., February, 1905.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
In this edition the author has endeavored to make all the corrections which were suggested to him during the past year, and to add to the book descriptions, etc., of the new range-board, the deflection-board, several later types of guns, and a brief discourse on the loading, planting, and care of submarine mines according to the new and adopted system.
The author desires to thank Captain R. P. Davis for his revision of the "torpedo gunnery" contained in the work.
Fort Totten, N. Y., November, 1905.
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
As was stated in the preface of the first edition, this book will be revised from year to year as the rules of gunnery change, and this revision is made merely to bring the book up to date.