| Description | DM162/10/12/folio 65. Letter to Sir Charles Wood relating to Floating batteries and mortar boats. Efforts to impress advantages on Government, disapproved by Admiralty, inability of ships etc., to oppose land batteries, further attempt to urge construction of suitable armaments, Brunel's practical experience in guns and ships, ability to construct if approved by experienced military, details including heavy guns in shot proof floating casemate, speed, draft, etc., effect and action of such batteries, practicability, suggestion for experiments, application of similar principle to mortar boats of small draft, size, etc., suitable for heaviest mortars. 27 July 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 66. Letter to Sir Charles Wood relating to a floating gun. Memorandum including details of heavy gun in shot proof casemate exposing smallest possible oblique surface, direction and action of gun, engine, speed, screw propulsion but preference for jets, accuracy, gun loading machinery, additional rifle fire, shot proof vessels as screens against distant shot, auxiliary boats, action of batteries, transport of gunboats, iron thickness, etc., Cronstadt forts, manufacture, necessity of experiments, etc. 20 December 1855. |