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Modern Navies
September 23, 1880 issue

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The article focuses on various aspects of navies. With the introduction and improvement of iron-clad ships, the vast increase in the power and weight of ordnance, torpedo warfare developing as a new and special arm, modifications in engines and boilers which have tended greatly to increase speed and to economize fuel, the revolution in tactics and entire change in the conditions of naval warfare brought about by the growth of armor-defence and ram-attack, it is only by the closest attention, and under exceptionally favorable circumstances, that naval offices have been able to comprehend - the magnitude of the general result. England, leads the world as a naval power.

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NAVIES; SHIPS; ORDNANCE; NAVY-yards & naval stations; ARMED Forces; ENGLAND
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