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Forging the anchor. Click on the pictures for larger, clearer images
If you want to know what really happened in that era, I think this may help rather more:
The First World War, Second Edition: A Complete History
This should tell an interesting story too:
Warships of the World to 1900
Follow this link for more Ships that Saved the Empire!
I love this bit:
“It is easy to understand now how we manage to extract the carbon from the iron; we induce it to join with the oxygen of the air, and thus form an invisible gas. We really are not concerned with what happens to it so long as it disappears from the iron.”
And that, children, is how global warming started…..