Sail-screw clippers. Part 2
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Sail-screw clippers. Part 2
19.99 €
"The most ordinary steamship, under unfavorable conditions, can make this passage in six or seven days.
But we will be rocking for 20 days, and maybe more, only because we have enough coal, but we can't stock it again. We have cannons; in most cases we can't fix them on the oceanic quicksand, we are sitting too low and will take so much water by the port that it will hardly be possible to act with guns. Any mail ocean steamer even with one gun of large caliber will, laughing, enter into battle with us, being quite sure of success. On the voyage of clippers otherwise and can not be looked at as purely educational in the sense of sailing".
In this assessment, given by a contemporary, the whole sail-screw clipper.
If the combat value of clippers was initially considered low, then as training ships clippers were irreplaceable and for many decades sailed the oceans, preparing new personnel for the fleet.
Part 2 of the trilogy tells about the series of the first metal clippers of the Russian Navy, consisting of four units: "Cruiser", "Dzhigit", "Razboynik" and "Strelka". From the lines of reports and memories of the participants, the reader learns about the construction and technical solutions used on this series.
The book is richly illustrated with drawings, engravings and photographs from the collection of A.V. Plotto, as well as presented by I.N. Naimushin, V.A. Petrov and Y.A. Likin. We express our gratitude to them.
But we will be rocking for 20 days, and maybe more, only because we have enough coal, but we can't stock it again. We have cannons; in most cases we can't fix them on the oceanic quicksand, we are sitting too low and will take so much water by the port that it will hardly be possible to act with guns. Any mail ocean steamer even with one gun of large caliber will, laughing, enter into battle with us, being quite sure of success. On the voyage of clippers otherwise and can not be looked at as purely educational in the sense of sailing".
In this assessment, given by a contemporary, the whole sail-screw clipper.
If the combat value of clippers was initially considered low, then as training ships clippers were irreplaceable and for many decades sailed the oceans, preparing new personnel for the fleet.
Part 2 of the trilogy tells about the series of the first metal clippers of the Russian Navy, consisting of four units: "Cruiser", "Dzhigit", "Razboynik" and "Strelka". From the lines of reports and memories of the participants, the reader learns about the construction and technical solutions used on this series.
The book is richly illustrated with drawings, engravings and photographs from the collection of A.V. Plotto, as well as presented by I.N. Naimushin, V.A. Petrov and Y.A. Likin. We express our gratitude to them.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books in the series Russian Imperial Navy