INDEX. 
479 
Russian floating batteries, 100 
-heavy rifled guns, testing accuracy of 
fire of, 70 
- iron-clad fleet, 99 
—-, trials of practical sailing 
of, 103 
-monitors, 101; armament of, 102 
-new admiralty, “ Tifon” and “TJragan ” 
constructed at, 102 
• rifled guns for fortress of Cronstadt, 64 
- steel guns, result of experiments with, 
67 
-turret boats, 101 
-wooden vessels, iron-plated, 99 
S. 
Saddles, mountain train service, 458 
-, transverse section of, 459 
Sadowa, king of Prussia’s instructions to 
Crown Prince, before battle of, 381 
Salamanca, Marmont’s account of his wound 
at, 416 ; losses at, ib. 
•——, retreat from, 412 
Saluting charges, 211 
“ Salvavinelli,” 35 
Samerang, flag of truce sent in by Janssens 
at, 414 
“ Sclopus,” 27, 36 
Screens, used with chronograph, details of the 
172 
“ Scrocatoria,” 33 
Sebastopol, notices of the application of shrap¬ 
nel, at siege of, 424 
“ Sebastopol,” construction and launch of the, 
99 
“ Secchia,” 35 
Secretary, E.A. Institution, letter from Lieut.- 
Col. Freeth to, 113 
Section of Pettman’s general service percussion 
fuze, 292 
Sedgemoor, bishop of Winchester’s coach 
horses drag the great guns to battl® of, 
267 
Segment shell, practical tests of ranges with, 
315 
——, results of tests with a time fuze arrange¬ 
ment, 319 
Semiannikoff, Messrs, construction of Russian 
iron-clad floating battery “ Kreml ” by, 101 
Sepoys, loss of, at siege of Madras, 437 
Seraing, construction of Russian boats 
“Koldun” and “ Wieshchun ” at, 102 
Serjeants, loss of, at Maida, 404 
——-, at Vittoria, 417 
Service charges for S.B. cast-iron American 
ordnance, 227 
——- for Woolwich gun, 211 
Service of B.L. and M.L. field guns, practical 
tests of the, 314 
Sharpe’s rifle, mechanical arrangement of, 
241 
Shaw, Lieut-Col., R.A. plan of muzzle-pivot¬ 
ing guns, 250 
-, note on by, 258 
Shell, double, mountain train gun, 457 
-, surrender of Port Amsterdam, after re¬ 
ceiving the second, 400 
Shells, common, for mountain service, 455 
•-, for rifled field guns, 305 
—--Woolwich guns, 210 
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Shells fired at siege of Madras, number of, 
437 
-, small mortar, effect of at siege of Gib¬ 
raltar, 389 
-with short fuzes, recommended, ib. 
Shoeburyness, report of an experiment on the 
21st June and 7th December, 1865, to 
test the powers of resistance of the 
“ Hercules ” target, &c., 107 
- — , trial of muzzle-pivoting carriage at, 
account of, 254 
Shooting qualities of B.L. and M.L. field guns, 
tests of the, 314 
Shot and shell, Palliser’s chilled, 231 
———, application of electricity to measure the 
velocities of, 165 
-, cast in chill, relative penetration of, 107 
——, Prussian system of leading, 73 
Shrapnel, accounts of, queried by Board of 
Ordnance, 397, 
——, advantages derived from firing case 
shot, published by, 394 
——- anxious that his invention should not be 
made public, 403 
——, complaints made against spherical case 
shot of, 415 
—designated the “ modern Archimedes,” 
403 
—— exhibits his new shells before the king, 
394 
- -, extract from letter of Sir John May to, 
417 
——, letter from Col. Boag, R.A. to, 390 
- Edmund Currey to, 392 
-- Sir Augustus Frazer to, 410 
--— J. Harding to, 393 
- F. Laye to, 392 
-- Major Macdonald to, 416 
-Sir Sidney Smith to, 413 
—-Sir John Sinclair to, 406 
-W. P. Smith to, 393 
——- Sir Arthur Wellesley to, 406 
-, letter to Major Gold from, 417 
——, letters from Committee at Woolwich to 
Board of Ordnance on experiments carried 
on by, 391, 393 
-, memorandum of experiment carried on 
at Gibraltar, 387 
-to Carron Company, 391 
■-, remarks by, to Master General of the 
Ordnance, on the flight of grape and case 
shot, 389 
—■—, rules laid down by, for spherical case 
shot practice, 396 
—— termed “ an enthusiast,” 390 
Shrapnel of the past, 385 
Shrapnel shells, Boxer, 456 
-, effect of, at retreat from Salamanca, 
412 
-—, effect upon Jerome’s attacking columns 
at Waterloo, 422 
-, effective against gun boats, 412 
-, effects produced at siege of St Sebastian 
by, 418 
-—, electric effect of, at Vimiera, 408 
-—, execution of, at passage of the Torde- 
sillas, 411 
——, Gen. Nott’s opinion of the value of, 
422 
-highly valued by the Duke of Wellington, 
385 
-, Lord Suffolk’sinterviewwithMrCanning 
regarding, 403 
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