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The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Alabama and Kearsarge. (search)
which had been appointed by the Emperor to visit the Kearsarge and inspect and report upon her armament, had performed that duty on Friday last. On that day Lieut Thornton, First Lieutenant of the Kearsarge, reported to Capt Winslow that a company of officers, who had descended from a steamer which came down from the direction o the officers forming the commission were: Capt Lefeure, Colonel of Artillery, Count Lancia; Marine Engineer, Senneville, and Rear-Admiral Baron Dideiot. Lieut Thornton laid down to these gentlemen the doctrine that rifled guns on board ship were not to be compared to the columbiads for usefulness; that however perfect might the latter was enabled to save her ammunition until she arrived in close quarters, and her work of destruction was easily and rapidly executed. Thus, when Lieutenant Thornton had exposed to the commission that the great desideratum was an enormous shell thrown in at close quarters, with just velocity enough to arrive inside the e