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Title: The Royal Navy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swinburne, Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1934 illus Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935, illus
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ere notmuch in favour, for, on account of the interferencewith the broadside fire of a ship, paddle propulsionpractically limited a ships armament to bow andstern guns. The screw was first experimentally tried, as faras the Royal Navy is concerned, in 1842 ; and whenthe Erebus and Terror, that composed Sir JohnFranklins expedition to the Arctic in 1845, leftEngland, each ship was fitted with a screw. Bythe time of the Crimean War the screw for largeships was firmly estabhshed, though even thenmany of our line of battleships were sailingvessels, and it was not until 1859 that it wasofficially declared that sailing ships are unfit foractive service. Masts and sails, however, werestill regarded as absolutely essential to all sea-going ships, and this remained so until sail powerdisappeared entirely in the turret ships of theseventies. For broadside ships, however, sailpower still continued for some years. As late as1893 the writer can remember a central-battery H.M.S. VICTORY, EVENING ;*
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• • NAVY OF STEAM AND STEEL 289 battleship of the Iron Duke class in the fleet thatwas concentrated for the annual manoeuvres ofthat year, asking permission to spread sail toenable her to keep station, as her steaming powerwas not equal to the speed the admiral in com-mand had ordered. She was, I believe, the solebattleship left in the Navy with masts and spars.All the others had had their sailing masts removedand pole masts with fighting tops fitted. Twinscrews, now universal, were first proposed in 1860,and first fitted in the Penelope, one of the smallestof our ironclads that was completed in 1868.To-day turbine-driven engines have completelyreplaced the older type, and have come to stay,for every ship now constructing for the Navy,from torpedo-boat to battleship, is turbine-driven.Coupled with this new departure there is alsoanother in that all of our most recent ships arefitted for the consumption of oil fiiel as well as coal.Turning to construction, we find that the twogreat

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