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ships that could compare to those then building in Europe. Although more powerful ironclads were on the building ways these were destined to fall victim to the postwar demobilisation and never served operationally in the US Navy. The USS Monitor gave its name as a generic term to all of its type that followed. A monitor is defined as a low freeboard armoured ship with a large calibre main battery carried in a turret or turrets on the centre line. When the Confederates captured Norfolk Navy Yard...
United States Navy Monitors of the Civil War
Although the desig n of the USS Monitor was revolutionary rather than evolutionary, many of its components were not new. In fact the design of 'ironclad' warships was being actively pursued by the naval ministries of Europe primarily because of the lessons learned during the Crimean War. It might be argued that the United States Navy had produced the first steam driven 'ironclad' in Robert Fulton's ingenious steam driven battery Demologos or Fulton . Although this double-hulled paddle wheeler...
Metal Parts
H. Training trucks, both with journals, and eccentric axles. Above A longitudal section of a monitor of the Tippecanoe class showing the wood and iron construction. Below left Plan view. Centre The machinery of the USS Monitor, designed by Ericsson. Right Stern elevation of the Tippecanoe class, showing the cutup of the armoured Tom Brittain Profile Publications Limited monitors still tended to slide from side to side when running at low speeds. The side armour on the raft was increased to 5in....
Bureau Of Construction And Repairnavy Department
1 The four monitors of the Miantonomoh Class deteriorated rapidly after the end of the Civil War. In 1874 The Secretary of the Navy. George Robeson, ordered 'extensive repairs' to be carried out on these ships. New ship construction funds were not being supplied by Congress so under the guise of 'repairs', four completely new ships were built, renamed the Amphitrite Class. A national scandal resulted when this ruse was discovered, which contributed to the fact that these ships plus the monitor...