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INDEX. 
“Lord Warden,” wooden ship, description, 
tonnage, and horse power of, 428 
--, target, 147, 428 
• -, section shewing the construc¬ 
tion of, 428 
— --, Capt. Inglis on arrangement 
of material adopted in the, 429 
• -:-, experiment to test the powers 
of resistance to projectiles of the, 147 
— -, plates, manufactured at Mill- 
wall Company, ib. 
Lull, Lieut., on the attack of the confederate 
ram “ Tennessee,” 440 
Lynall Thomas’ 7" gun, against Capt. Inglis’s 
second shield, 47 ; accumulated work of, ib. 
M. 
Macbean, Col. Forbes, R.A. memoir of the 
Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1748-1779, 
by, 259 
Machines, in general use, for the mounting, 
&c, of heavy ordnance, relation of the 
power to the weight in, 271 
Mackay, Mr, trial of cylindrical shot, 215 
Maid of Orleans, 11 
Majendie, Capt. It.A., some considerations 
respecting the value of shells of the 
Shrapnel class, 4 
, on the causes which led to the superses¬ 
sion of the original Shrapnel shell, and 
the adoption of the diaphragm pattern, 152 
———, description of Boxer’s 2-inch time fuze 
for rifled ordnance, 171 
— -, on the objections which have been 
urged against the diaphragm Shrapnel 
shells; and on the general merits of this 
construction, 234 
— -Armstrong’s (C) percussion fuze, Dyer’s 
pattern, 280 
Makin, Messrs, Attercliffe Works, Sheffield, 
steel shot manufactured at, 207 
Mallet, Mr, on the best form of shot for pene¬ 
trating iron plates, 212 
Mantelets, experiments to ascertain the pro¬ 
tection afforded by four different, against 
the Enfield rifle service ammunition, &c., 
232 
Manufacture of gun cotton, 84 
Maori position at Rangariri, New Zealand, 
description of, 35 
Marchand, Capt., on the attack of the con¬ 
federate ram “ Tennessee,” 440 
Marlborough, Duke of, Master-General of 
Ordnance, 268 
Marquet, A., letter from, to Prof. Pole, 20 
“Mary Rose,” operations upon the wreck 
of, 25 
Mauri b (le Mans), Richard Grafton on the 
siege of, 1424, 10 
“ Maungatautari ” pah, 383 
McCurley and Allen, Acting-Masters, 440 
Mean deflections of service and special shot, 
186 
Memoir of Sir R. William Gardiner, vii 
Memoirs of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 
by Col. Forbes Macbean, 1743-1779, 259 
Memorandum of rope mantelets made for 
Select Committee, 231 
■——-, in reference to the action of 
shot upon plate armour, 195 
Memoranda on the two large wroughtdron 
guns, left by the English at Mont S« 
Michel, Normandy, in 1424,17 
Mersey Company, steel shot, experiments 
with, 210 
Method of obtaining the distance of objects at 
sea (from elevated shore batteries), without 
the use of the spirit-level, and without 
having to make calculations with tables 
of natural tangents, &c., 150 
“ Miami,” extract from report of officer com¬ 
manding the, 437 
“Michelettes,” extracts from writers, furnished 
by M. Marquet to Prof. Pole, on obscurity 
of, 21 
Millboard, compressed, weight of, per cubic 
foot, 38 
Miller, Major, R.A., 3J(£., an introduction to 
the properties and history of gun cotton, 
by, 65 
Millwall Iron Works, armour plates of “ Belle- 
rophon,” target manufactured at, 31 
— -, “ Lord Warden ” plates manufac¬ 
tured at, 147 
--—, rolled plates, 277 
Miners, company of, 267 
“ Minotaur ” target, experiment on, at Shoe- 
buryness, 37, 419 
--thickness of armour of, ib. 
-thickness of teak backing of, ib. 
Mitchelson, Major, R.A., 264 
Mobile, extract from report, on the attack on 
the defences of, 441 
“ Mollance Meg,” 26 
Money, value of, 293 
“ Mons Meg,” the ancient bombard, preserved 
at Edinburgh Castle, 25 
-, the “mickle-mouthed murtherer,” his¬ 
tory of, not authentic before 1489, 10 
-brought from Edinburgh Castle to 
besiege Dumbarton, 26 
•-, dimensions of, 30 
-, first appearance, of 26 
-, mode of construction of, 29 
Monstrelet, account of the trial of a “ grosse 
bombarde,” 29 
Montalban and Montleuze, Royal Artillery 
employed in defence of, 260 
Mont S. Michel in Normandy, two large can¬ 
non preserved at, 10 
-, attacked by English, 12 
-, dimensions of large gun preserved at, 
18; of small gun, ib. 
■ -, extract from personal narrative of 
Prof. Pole at, 14 
— -, names and armorial bearings of 
knights in church of, ib. 
- -, narrative of siege of, by Abbe Des- 
roches, 12 
■ -, set siege to by English, 11 
-, siege of, converted into a blockade 
13 
Mont Tombelaine, hermit of, warning to 
Commander Lescale, 12 
Morris island, additional list of actions in 
which the iron-clads were engaged with 
the batteries in Charleston harbour, while 
reducing, 449 
— -, return, shewing the number of shots 
fired and hits received by iron-clads, 
during operations against, 446 
Muratori, cannon at Cre 9 y, 298 
Muzzle-pivoting gun carriage, 89 
