I will now take up the three points of speed, quick-firing guns, and search-lights.
But to my mind the most salient alteration in the conditions affecting the question is the introduction of quick-firing guns, search-lights, and increased speed.
In the future, light vessels of great speed, armed with quick-firing guns, are likely to be the order of the day.
This was discovered just at the critical moment by means of one of the British search-lights, and upon the hostile boats a frightful cascade of projectiles was poured by the quick-firing guns of the battery.
The rush of flame from the quick-firing guns of the Centurion was continuous, and the firing was much more accurate than that of her opponent, nevertheless the latter was manipulated with remarkable skill.
The reply was a weak one from her quick-firing guns, her heavy arms having nearly all been disabled.
A puff of white smoke from her barbette, and the Cecille received a taste of her quick-firing guns, the shots from which struck her amidships, killing a large number of her men, and tearing up her deck.
Then again there is, of course, the armament mechanism for working the torpedo tubes and semi-automatic quick-firing guns.
A hurried dive beneath the surface is necessary if the waiting submarines would avoid detection, which would, in all probability, mean destruction by the quick-firing guns of the destroyers.
They are also equipped with two 3-inch quick-firing guns on high-angle disappearing mountings for defence against air-craft and hostile torpedo-boats and destroyers.
Despite the skill shown in the construction and placing of the forts, the gunboats, by bringing their Maxims and quick-firing guns to bear, passed them unscathed.
When the other gunboats got up, what with cannon, quick-firing guns, and Maxims brought to bear upon the dervish camp, it was speedily wrecked and torn.
The long 15-pounder English field cannon hit with the precision of match rifles, and were discharged as though they had been quick-firing guns.
I followed him along a narrow strip of iron deck, past a great turret which reared itself above me, and again by the covered forms of quick-firing guns.
The music of the fight grew louder and louder, the quick-firing guns of the enemy paying their tribute.
For two hours this morning the Creusot and quick-firing guns of the enemy fired into the laager, creating scenes of panic and consternation which it is not fitting to describe.
From time to time above the hissing of the rain and the roar of the rivers we heard the angry cough of the Nordenfeldt, the shrieks of their quick-firing guns, and the heavy and more stately boom of "Big Ben.
Moreover, the merchant ship had been riddled fore, aft and amidships by the submarine's quick-firing guns, and it was sheer good luck that not one of these shells had struck a vital part of the ship.
The U93, in accordance with the design of the very latest submarines, was armed with two quick-firing guns.
The French and the German staffs, he said, had mutually agreed that on the towers of the cathedral no quick-firing guns should be placed, and by both sides this agreement was observed.
It was guarded by quick- firing guns, loaned by the French War Office, and by six petty officers from the Tennessee.
The Gallas try to drive away fever by firing guns, shouting, and lighting great fires.
The rifle-calibre guns were at first Gatlings with revolving barrels, then Gardner and Nordenfeldt volley-firing guns, and lastly the well-known Maxim.
Six quick-firing guns, two Hotchkiss guns, and numerous other weapons of more or less deadliness played upon the troops.
When the attack had been completed all vessels engaged resumed their stations and waited with quick-firing guns ready in case the monster should rise from the deep to make a dying effort to destroy her pursuers.
It was followed by other flashes and the sharp reports of quick-firing guns.
The small, quick-firing guns of all the ships within range were trained on it and the sea around was ploughed up with shell.
The English at once opened fire upon her with their shot and arrows, to which the Spaniards replied with their quick-firing guns.
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