2 folding plates, 2 illustrations. 8vo. Original decorated blue cloth, slightly faded, rebacked, RUSI bookplate. 20pp. London, W. Mitchell, 1865.
“No other target designed for naval purposes has resisted a similar weight of shot with so little injury,” judged the Iron Plate Committee of 1864. The Chalmers Target, which utilised new methods of backing armour-plate, had been successfully tested at Shoeburyness in 1863.
