The surgical & medical history of the naval war between Japan & China : during 1894-95 / translated from the original Japanese report, under the direction of Baron Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki.
- Saneyoshi, Yasuzumi, Baron.
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The surgical & medical history of the naval war between Japan & China : during 1894-95 / translated from the original Japanese report, under the direction of Baron Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![little upwiird.s, perforated tlie upper deck on the starboard side and ])assed through the netting on the same side. The other one explod- ed against the shield, igniting the ammunition placed aroimd the 12 c.Tn, guns on each side, especially that whicli was ])iled up at the entrance of the magazine. These explosions smashed gun gears, trunks, chests, etc. and caused a tire among the fragments of wood and canvas which were scattered about. The shell then destroyed electric cells, and wires, and the ladder in the fore torpedo-chamber ; it also broke the iron-cover of a sheet chain locker under the ladder, and depressed the doors of the lockers on both sides of the torpedo- chamber, and damaged their contents. As the lower deck upon both sides of the water-taidc was destroyed and tell on the tank, more than half the Avash tubs arranged on it, and the windlass were destroyed; the ladder of forward hatch No. 1 was blown off; the steam pipe and voice tube were cut off, while the iron plates surrounding the entrance of the fore-boiler Avere depressed. Further, the gun-room and opposite mess-room Avere damaged in several places, and cracks and irregulai'ities Avere produced on the upper and loAver decks forAvards, esj)ecially on the starboard side of the upper deck. 'fhe Avarraut officeis’ room, their bed rooms and bath room Avere also destroyed by the bursting of a shell, the sick berths in the fore-])art of upper deck being damaged, and the medical stock provided there almost entirely destroyed. Moreover the forAvard search lights Avere destroyed and the forecastle and adjacent parts greatly damaged. Du ring this engagement, many officers and men on ho:ird the Matsushima AA^ere either killed or injured, some l)y the fragments of the enemies’ shells, some by the explosions of our OAvn gunpoAvder, some by splinters of ship’s planks and tools. In this Avay thirty ])ersons Avere killed on the spot Avhile seventy persons AA'ere Avounded.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24867652_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
