Arming of Merchant Ships
The Admiralty have just issued orders that armaments for 30 merchant ships are to be maintained in readiness at the dockyards, weapons for fourteen being stored at Portsmouth, for nine at Devouport, and for seven at Chatham. Ten ships will carry twelve, ten ten guns, and ten eight ; one hundred and twelve o-inch breechloaders, sixty -four 7-inch muzzle loaders, forty-eight 64 pounders, and seventy-six 40 pounders. Weapons and their fittings can be shipped and fitted on a few hours' notice, should circumstances at any time necessitate the arming of the mercantile marine.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 76, 30 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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96Arming of Merchant Ships Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 76, 30 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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