FOOTNOTES:
[1] This is not strictly true of quite all the ships named, but it probably will be true erelong, as none of them has more than a light auxiliary rig, and that will probably be abandoned.
[3] “The British Navy.”
[4] From “Engineering.”
[5] Some persons regarded the existence of these four small port-holes as converting the tower into a nest for projectiles, although a single enemy could not possibly have attacked more than two of these ports at once, situated as they were. What would such persons think of the batteries of the Nelson, Northampton, and Shannon, each open for more than one hundred feet in length, on each side of the ship, in so far as armor is concerned?
[6] The Italia and Lepanto, for example.
[8] “The British Navy,” vol. i., p. 438.
[9] Ibid., p. 427. The writer trusts he may be excused from again quoting these very important sentences from the work of the former Secretary to the Admiralty, notwithstanding that he recently had occasion to quote them elsewhere.