The Nation's Navy

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Excerpt from The Nation's Navy: Our Ships and Their Achievements The past half-century has witnessed a revolution in all things connected with naval warfare. The warship of the past has vanished and another and stronger has taken its place. The wooden walls of the ships of our ancestors have been replaced by walls of steel, the swelling sail by the whirling screw, St. Elmo's fire by the search-light, the seaman by the sea-mechanic, and the reefer of the sail by the heaver of coal. In short, in comparing the navy of the past with that of the present, we feel constrained to quote from Shakespeare - with a slight difference in wording: "Nothing of it that can fade But has suffered a sea change Into something new and strange." To-day the navy of the United States stands strongly in evidence. There is nothing else which fills so large a space in the world's eye. It is the one subject about which all our people talk by day and dream by night, in which they feel an abiding interest and take a patriotic pride. Ten years ago this was not the case. Then we had no navy, other than a museum of antiquities. To-day our navy is, for its size, perhaps the finest in the world. Ten years from to-day it may take rank with the largest and strongest in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.