Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Commander J. P. Bankhead” in chapter 36 of Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War.:
...ng badly and yawing about very much.
By 8 P. M., the wind began to blow heavily, causing the Monitor to plunge deeply, the sea washing over and into the turret, and at times into the hawse-pipes.
Commander J. P. Bankhead , of the Monitor, signalled several times to the Rhode Island to stop towing, in order to see whether that would prevent the influx of water into his vessel, but she only fell off into the trough of t...
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