ABSTRACT
The cabinet and Parliament had agreed after much hard fighting to a formidable British counter-response in terms of troops and fortifications, but are falling to Leeward with British Navy, he admonished Somerset, that is to say with respect to the new Class of Iron cased Ships. If ever the Royal Navy was going to invest in a privately built flotilla of coastal defence or assault turret ships, Robinson just killed it. Without adverting in a spirit of jealousy to the progress which every Naval Power in Europe is making in the direction of protecting their military Navy by Iron Plating, he observed, it is evident that a complete revolution has taken place in the requirements of Naval Architecture, and that an ordinary Ship of War unprotected by Iron Plates, is certain to be destroyed in action even by any wooden Ship of the same force.
