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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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unition hoists are manned by their crews, the surgeons and hospitalstewards have prepared the cots, bandages and instruments for their ghastlywork in the sick bay, and all are breathlessly awaiting the developments ofthe next few minutes. The captain and executive officer, who has joined him on the bridge,have been trying to making out the big Spaniard, and are pretty wellsatisfied that it is the Pelayo., and if so, a foeman worthy of their steel. Thecaptain then ascends into the coning tower; and now the brains of thismighty fighting behemoth are in its head, from whence it can control theaction of every muscle and nerve and organic part through the electric wiresand speaking tubes that twist and wind throughout its great body. The two junior officers, who have been at work with the range findersto ascertain the distance of the swiftly-approaching enemy, have announced HOW A BATTLE BEGINS ON A WARSHIP. 135 to the captain their first determination, and followed it up from time to time
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with the indications of the rapidly-diminishing distance between the twoships, as they speed toward each other. 136 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. Cast loose and provide, is the order that thrills through the Indianaover its system of wire nerves; and the work of preparing the ponderous gunsfor their deadly duty is swiftly performed. The stout steel clamps that haveheld the guns rigidly in place while cruising are cast loose, and everylittle article that is necessary for their rapid service is provided by theproper member of each crew, which has been so thoroughly drilled that thisgreat labor has been accomplished with ease and rapidity. From the tower conies the word, open breech. This is to the sixmen comprising the crew of each of the 13-inch guns in the forward turret.Nos. 2 and 3 move back to the breech plug. At the command sponge,No. 1 of each crew turns on the hose, and Nos. 2 and 5 wash out the shellspaces; No. 3 wipes off the face of. the breech plug, and No. 2 and No. 3place the

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