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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The France navy. (search)
ast. But he keeps continually at work, improving his navy and making warlike preparations of every description, is order to be able to fight successfully any nation that may "throw down the gage" to him. The annexed extracts from; a Northern paper show the perfection to which he has carried his sea going iron-clads: Some months ago we printed some particulars of a cruise which a fleet of iron clad ships made last October, in the Bay of Biscay. The voyage was afterwards extended from Cherbourg to Madeira and the Canary Islands, and the distance traversed by the vessels, out and back, was not less than three thousand six hundred miles. In the Revine des Deus Mondes, for January, appears an article of the experimental cruise, the first ever attempted by a fleet of iron-clade. The squadron consisted of seven vessels — the Invincible, Normandy, Corunna, Solferine, and Magenia, armored; and the Napoleon and Tourville, wood screw line of battle ships. These fast were attached as