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The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], The iron-clad navy of England. (search)
rks: "No question is invested at present with a greater degree of interest than the one relating to the production of plate armor for ships of war. That the Lords of the Treasury and the Admiralty are fully alive to the vast importance of the subject, has long been evident. Scientific committees, assisted by the first metallurgists of the day, have been employed to conduct all kinds of experiments and report upon them. A vast fund of information must also have been forwarded by Capt. R. S. Hewitt, C. B., regarding the experimental firing at Portsmouth, and testing "sample" plates still proceeds there as fast as they can be attached to the target ships. In testing these sample plates the knowledge gamed of the structure of different kinds of iron has been very great. "Some of the plates, on being struck by several 68-pounder shot in nearly the same place, so as to compel a fracture, have exhibited a peculiar silvery appearance in the separated parts of the metal, which hav