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USS Monitor. Required for inshore fighting, Monitor had a shallow-draft iron hull, topped by an armored raft that provided good protection against ramming and cannon fire. The freeboard was less than two feet, sufficient for coastal requirements, though a real problem when the ship went to sea. Engine power was modest, but again sufficient to the need. Monitor did not have masts and sails.The true innovation was the method of carrying her guns: a thickly-armored round turret, twenty-feet in diameter, rotated by steam power to permit nearly all-around fire from a pair of eleven-inch Dahlgren smoothbore shell guns, the heaviest weapons then available. USS Monitor (1862). Line engraving, entitled "The Victorious Union Gunboat 'Monitor'", published by Caldwell & Co., 37 Park Row, New York. Drawn by J. Seitz and engraved by Ten Eyke, it depicts the ship as she appeared before angled plating was added to the base of her pilothouse. Courtesy of George H. Stegmann, New York. NHHC Photograph Collection, NH 58. |
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| Author | National Museum of the U.S. Navy |
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