Special Notice

April 1893
NAVAL INSTITUTE PRIZE ESSAY, 1894.A prize of one hundred dollars, with a gold medal, is offered by the Naval Institute for the best essay presented on any subject pertaining to ...

Notice

April 1893
The U. S. Naval Institute was established in 1S73, having for its object the advancement of professional and scientific knowledge in the Navy. It now enters upon its twenty-first year ...

Warships and Naval Warfare

By Ch. Chubaud-Arnault, French Naval Commander, Retired.
April 1893
Translated, by permission, from the Revista Maritima Brazileira,By Professor Jules Leroux, U. S. Naval AcademyFor twenty- five or thirty years—since the War of the Rebellion in the United States ...

The White Straight-Pull Rifle

First Lieutenant H. K. White
April 1893
The larger figure gives a general view of the breech, with details of the magazine and other parts in dotted lines. The clip is entered from above and pushed down ...

Negative-Reciprocal Equations

By Commander J. E. Craig, U. S. Navy
April 1893
Read before the New York Mathematical Society, June 3, 1893.1. There is a type of equations that remain unaltered when x is changed into – 1/X.From the character of ...

Professional Notes

April 1893
FRENCH SMALL-ARM SMOKELESS POWDER.[Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, April, 1893.]According to M. Pouteaux, in his work "La Poudre sans Futnee et les Poudres Anciennes," Dijon, 1892 ...

Book Notices

April 1893
Index to the Literature of Explosives, Part II. By Charles E. Munroe, late Chemist to the Torpedo Corps, U. S. Navy. Deutsch Lithographing and Printing Co., Baltimore, 1893. Subscription price ...

The U.S. Naval Institute is a private, self-supporting, not-for-profit professional society that publishes Proceedings as part of the open forum it maintains for the Sea Services. The Naval Institute is not an agency of the U.S. government; the opinions expressed in these pages are the personal views of the authors.

Digital Proceedings content made possible by a gift from CAPT Roger Ekman, USN (Ret.)