A secondary engine was designed to throw floods of water upon the decks and through the port-holes of an enemy.
Her armament was to consist of thirty thirty-two-pounder guns, and two one hundred-pounder columbiads.  A secondary engine was designed to throw floods of water upon the decks and through the port-holes of an enemy.  While the vessel was building, reports concerning her reached England ; and soon the most ludicrously exaggerated accounts of her power were current in that country. "