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DEFENCE OF WATERS AGAINST TORPEDO-BOAT ATTACK. 
vague—especially those officers who have spent perhaps all their pre¬ 
vious service at Aldershot and kindred places, and whose ideas of ships 
are limited to some particularly unpleasant passage in a trooper. 
Any port with a narrow entrance (Fig. 1) would be best left to 
artillery, the defence being supplemented by booms when possible. 
Anything approaching to an open roadstead (Fig. 2) or bay would 
seem to be easiest dealt with by boats from the ships placed as out¬ 
posts. 
Fia. l. 
It would have been somewhat easier to illustrate practically by refer¬ 
ring to the particular locality at present in my mind, but this would 
have involved exact details of armament, &c., and the present condition 
of defence, which of course could not be done. 
