The book From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life was written by author Mahan Alfred Thayer Here you can read free online of From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life a good or bad book?
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This is really an interesting matter for speculation, as to what ineffect is practical. The mastery of conclusions, to which practicaleffect never could have been given, served to drive home principleswhich would have come usefully into play, had the sail era continuedand the United States maintained fleets of sailing battle-ships tohandle. For myself personally, when I came to write naval history, long years after, I derived invaluable aid from the principles and thesimpler evolutions, thus as...similated and remembered. But for them Ishould often have found it difficult to understand what with them wasobvious. A singular circumstance thus brought out was the want ofexactness and precision in English terminology in this field. The mostnotable instance that occurs to me was in Nelson's journal onTrafalgar morning, "The enemy wearing in succession, " when, in fact, as a matter of manoeuvre, the hostile fleet "wore together, " thoughthe several vessels wore "in succession;" a paradox only to beunderstood at a glance by those familiar with fleet tactics undersail.
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