Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d he organised his fleetin three divisions. The first was composed ofseven ironclads. The second, under his friendCommodore Petz, consisted of the seven woodenships. The third was made up of gunboats,paddle-steamers, and other light craft. Thecrews were rapidly recruited among the fishingpopulation of the Dalmatian coast, and thesailors of Trieste and Pola. So new were many LISSA. 1-7 of them to work on board a man-of-war thatthey were not even uniformed when the fleetsailed, and they still wore at Lissa the clothesin which they enlisted. But they were braveand hardy seamen to begin with, and TegethofFhad given them some weeks of training inwhich the crews were busy from morning to one of his steamers out with orders to recon-noitre the Italian coast from Ancona southwardsas far as Bari. On June 23rd she returned tothe Admirals headquarters at Fasana, andreported that there were only a few ships atAncona, and no sign yet of the enemys mainfleet coming up the coast. Tegethoff, on this,
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from this POlNT TEGETHOFF KEPT ON THE BRIDGE (p. l6o). night at target practice, the captains of the gunsbeing taught to lay a whole broadside so as toconverge on a single mark ; and there was alsopractice in manoeuvring under steam, in whichgreat stress was laid on the importance of rapidturning so as to avoid the enemys rams, anduse the same weapon successfully against them.The result was that even the newly-enlistedmen learned confidence in themselves and in thebrave and skilful leader who commanded them.As soon as war was declared, TegethofF sent resolved to see if it was possible to make a rapidattack on Ancona, and on the 26th he put tosea with thirteen ships, including six of his iron-clads. He arrived off Ancona next day, andsaw for himself that in the meantime Persanohad collected his entire force in the harbour.But the Italians showed no signs of comingout to meet him, and he had no intention offighting both their forts and their ironcladsat one and the same time. So he stea

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