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THE question which has been raised respecting the stability of the Inflexible, important as it is with reference to that ship, leads to very much wider and more general considerations. It is already known that the same principle, or want of principle, which has brought doubt upon the one ship appears also in the Ajax and the Agamemnon, and is to be reproduced in the only ship of much size or importance which the Government purpose commencing during the present year. Bat even in this succession of large and costly ships we see probably but the beginning of a system which, having thus received countenance and sanction in the highest quarters in this country, may not improbably become extended over the navies of the world. We propose, therefore, to explain to our readers the nature of the question itself and the manner in which it has arisen.
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The “Inflexible” . Nature 16, 201–203 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016201a0
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