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Página 225 - I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copy of a letter from the Commander-in-chief on the Pacific Station dated the 23rd September, forwarding an extract from the "Victoria Daily Times" of Monday, the 19th September, 1887, containing a demurrer handed in at Sitka by Mr.
Página 351 - ... one-half feet draught, three thousand two hundred horse-power, and guaranteed to attain a speed of twenty knots an hour, and to be equipped with three pneumatic dynamite-guns of ten and one-half inch caliber, and guaranteed to throw shells containing two hundred pounds of dynamite or other high explosives at least one mile, each gun to be capable of being discharged once in two minutes, at a price not to exceed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars...
Página 481 - Legislatures shall have passed special appropriations for the terms hereinafter mentioned, to which Acts this Agreement shall be attached as a First Schedule. 2. The Agreement shall be for a period of ten years, and only terminate if and provided notice has been given two years previously, viz., at the end of the eighth year, or at the end of any subsequent year, and then two years after such date.
Página 498 - ... projectile resting against the front end of this case. BREECH MECHANISM. (Plate I.) The breech of the gun is closed by a screw formed in two steps, the front step being tapered, and of less diameter than the rear; both steps have three portions of their thread removed, each one-sixth of a turn, the threads on one step standing opposite to the blank spaces on the other; this arrangement distributes the strain all round the circumference of the breech screw. The interior of the gun at the breech...
Página 156 - It occurred to us that the Post Office expenditure might be utilized, and that if we worked in combination, postal contracts could be associated with conditions by which, the use of the vessels carrying the mails might under certain contingencies be economically secured to the State. The revision of the North American contract was a most favourable opportunity for a trial of the idea. The White Star Company, one of the tenderers, had, in August last, expressed their willingness to build two vessels...
Página 482 - ... degree of south latitude, to 130° east longitude, thence northward on that meridian to the parallel of 2° north latitude, and thence on that parallel to the meridian of 136° east longitiule, thence north to 12° north latitude, and along that parallel to 160° west longitude.
Página 157 - Aurania, Etruria, and Umbria, in time of emergency at a price fixed both as regards hire or sale. The necessary platforms and fittings for carrying guns are to be put in at once. The crews of the ships to be half Naval Reserve men ; the owner to take charge of the gun mountings required. Under this arrangement, it is believed that within a week all three vessels could be fitted, armed, stored, and manned as armed cruisers. The use, at fixed prices, of the remainder of the Fleet, if required, was...
Página 227 - SIR: I am commanded by my lords commissioners of the admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of...