Assertion: volcano's side | /r/HasProperty | penetrable
Facets:
value: almost
type: DEGREE
value: at such ranges
type: TEMPORAL
value: against such artillery
type: OTHER
value: as wooden ships
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Realising that iron was more difficult to pierce with breech-loaded cannon, Armstrong designed rifled muzzle-loading guns, which proved successful; The Times reported: "even the fondest believers in the invulnerability of our present ironclads were obliged to confess that against such artillery, at such ranges, their plates and sides were almost as penetrable as wooden ships.