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The Corsair was steam powered and could make 19 knots!

The Corsair in the War Zone by Ralph Delahaye Paine is a recently added book on Project Gutenberg ( https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72760 ). The Corsair was J.P. Morgan's yacht, offered for and accepted into naval service during World War I. The ship escorted convoys (mainly in the Bay of Biscay),...

I meant to have a question mark at the end of that title: How might China attack Taiwan?

If China moves to absorb Taiwan with military action, what will it do? In “How China Might Invade Taiwan” ( Naval War College Review ,Vol. 54, No. 4, Autumn 2001, Article 5, https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol54/iss4/5 ), Piers M. Wood and Charles D. Ferguson posited a phased assault, w...

The inability to fire forward reminds me of a visit to the battleship New Jersey. There was a huge antenna mounted on the deck near the bow. I asked the docent how the main battery could be fired straight ahead, and he answered that the main battery was never fired straight ahead.

I found a document that will probably interest you, though it doesn't have specific answers to the questions you asked. On the Hyperwar website at http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/Amphibious/index.html you can read "Landing Operations Doctrine, United States Navy, 1938." It doesn't ...

Project Gutenberg has posted "A True Account of the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916" by Thomas G. Frothingham, Captain, U. S. R. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bacon & Brown, 1920) at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47949 . Apparently it was one of the first documents to make use of both B...