EditorialLADIES' VISIT TO AN IRONCLAD, 1889: THEIR ARRIVAL, THE GUNNERY LIEUTENANT SHOWS THAT THE MECHANISM OF A BREECH-LOADING GUN IS SO PERFECT THAT A CHILD COULD OPEN THE BREECH, THE MARINE OFFICER JAMS HIS FINGER IN EXPLAINING THE ACTION OF THE QUICK-FIRING...
EditorialThe Naval Manoeuvres: we sight four ships of the enemy off Queenstown and give chase. A brush with a torpedo boat, small-arm men on the forebridge; quick-firing guns on the deck below. 1889.
EditorialLADIES' VISIT TO AN IRONCLAD, 1889: THEIR ARRIVAL, THE GUNNERY LIEUTENANT SHOWS THAT THE MECHANISM OF A BREECH-LOADING GUN IS SO PERFECT THAT A CHILD COULD OPEN THE BREECH, THE MARINE OFFICER JAMS HIS FINGER IN EXPLAINING THE ACTION OF THE QUICK-FIRING...
EditorialTHE PORTUGUESE ATTACK ON THE BRITISH AT BEIRA, EAST AFRICA: One minute after the Tamega fired the first shot; the Limpopo full of armed men has been run up alongside the Agnes, and is threatening her with a quick-firing shell-gun on her bow.