literally mowed the Germans down by hundreds, breaking up their masses and
paralysing the attack. Our illustration shows one of the combats just at
the critical moment.--[_Drawn by Frédèric de Haenen._]




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38--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]


[Illustration: SHIPS THE BRITISH NAVY MIGHT HAVE HAD! FREAKS OF MARINE
ARCHITECTURE THAT HAVE NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY ADOPTED.]

We illustrate here and on the page opposite some curious designs for
war-ships by various inventors. No. 1 is McDougal's Armoured Whale-back,
with conning-towers, a design of 1892 for converting whalebacks into
war-vessels. No. 2 is an American design of 1892, Commodore Folger's
Dynamite Ram, cigar-shaped, with two guns throwing masses of dynamite or
aerial torpedoes. No. 3 is a design by the Earl of Mayo in 1894 and called
"Aries the Ram," built round an immense beam of steel terminating in a
sharp point, No. 4 is Gathmann's boat for a heavy gun forward, designed in
1900. She was to be of great speed, and the forward gun was to throw 600
lb. of gun-cotton at the rate of 2000 feet per second. A formidable Armada
this, had it been practicable.




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