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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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cks when driv-en, even in moderate weather, againsthead seas. The British navy, having very diversi-fied services to perform during both peaceand war, requires ships of various kindsand sizes. Its first and greatest require-ment of all is that of line-of-battle shipsin sufficient jmmbers to enable Englandto stand up successfully against any Euro-pean naval force or forces that may threat-en her or her empire. If any one shouldbe disposed to ask why this requirement—which is obviously an extreme one, and animpossible one for more than a single pow-er—is more necessary for England thanfor any other country, the answer mustbe, Circumspice! To look round overEnglands empire is to see why her fail-ure on the sea would be her failure alto-gether. Prance, Germany, Italy, andeven Holland, might each get along fair-ly well, losing nothing that is absolutely * The engraving of the Dreadnought is from adrawing presented to the writer by the ChevaHerDe Mariino, a marine artist of distinction.
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