Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg 49]: ‘projecting sponsoons’ replaced by ‘projecting sponsons’.
[Pg 57]: ‘1-inch Nordenfelt’ replaced by ‘1-inch Nordenfeldt’.
[Pg 76]: ‘Furiex’ (in table) replaced by ‘Furieux’.
[Pg 89]: ‘nearly 600 tons’ replaced by ‘nearly 6000 tons’.
[Pg 98]: ‘slow burning power’ replaced by ‘slow burning powder’.
[Pg 118]: ‘Dmitry Donskoi’ (in table) replaced by ‘Dmitri Donsköi’.
[Pg 118]: ‘Admiral Kornilof’ replaced by ‘Admiral Korniloff’.
[Pg 140]: ‘Rinda’ replaced by ‘Rynda’.
[Pg 180]: ‘floating ing batteries’ replaced by ‘floating batteries’.
[Pg 243]: ‘Whitehead torpedes’ replaced by ‘Whitehead torpedoes’.