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James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 182 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 74 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 62 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 60 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 31 1 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 30 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 28 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 24 0 Browse Search
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters 20 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 18 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
means of propulsion. The gun-deck was nearly level with the water-line, and ports were cut in the sloping sides. The external appearance of this floating battery seems to have been very similar to that of the confederate Virginia, formerly the Merrimac, or some of our Western iron-clads. Copper or iron was proposed as a covering for the exposed portion. It does not appear that a vessel was ever actually constructed on Gregg's plan, but the invention is interesting as embodying some of the fee casemate each gun may be brought to bear simultaneously on the same object. Captain Ericsson designed the Monitor class of vessels in 1854, though the idea seems to have lain dormant till the times were propitious. The Monitor attacked the Merrimac March 9, 1862, and, on the 11th of May following, the latter committed suicide. The revolving turret was invented by T. R. Timby, and was patented by him in 1862. Captain Coles introduced a modification into the British navy, and was lost when
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ates, breaking joints. The turret amidships was a round box of iron, built up of inch plates to 20 feet in diameter, 9 inches thick, and 9 feet high, with a grating or covering of railway bars. It contained two 11-inch guns. Her defeat of the Merrimac in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1863, rendered this little craft historic. She foundered in a storm, off Hatteras, December 31, 1862. See monitor. See also armorplating, p. 152. The Ironsides, completed at Philadelphia in 1862, was the only formne, cut down to near the water-line, plated with 4 1/2 inches of iron, and has three turrets, 11 inches thick, each carrying two 15-inch guns. She was only used for harbor defence, being found to roll so much as to be almost unseaworthy. The Merrimac was a United States wooden ship-of-the-line, and was set on fire at the Norfolk Navy Yard when that place was abandoned at the breaking out of the war. The hull was raised by the Confederates, and a false deck put on, above which an iron-clad fo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
. The guns and turret rested on a post or pivot amidships, which supported the whole weight, and was turned by the engines. The boilers and engines were aft, leaving the forward part of the hold for quarters for the crew and storage of ammunition. The pilot-house was forward, and had lookout-holes for the steersman or commander. (See also Plate IV., opposite page 150.) She was described by the Southern journals as a black Yankee cheese-box on a raft. The engagement of the Monitor and Merrimac in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862, was an event of history, and need only be mentioned here as having decided the fate of wooden vessels for naval contests. At that time the Monitor undoubtedly proved herself the most formidable craft afloat. Subsequent engagements with shore batteries pointed out a few defects in construction, the worst one being the location of the pilot-house forward of the turret, interfering with the pointing of the guns in that direction. In subsequent monitors
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
duction of armor-plating the use of the ram has been revived in modern warfare. The first effective use made of it was by the Confederate Virginia, the captured Merrimac, sinking the United States ships Cumberland and Saratoga, in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862. In the naval engagement at Lissa, in July, 1862, the Austrian admirntended for a man-of-war, and was put together in a most stanch and substantial manner. Her length was about 180 feet. In form she was a modification of the old Merrimac Her armor consisted of 2 1/2-inch iron in bars 8 inches wide crossing one another and bolted down with 1 3/4-inch bolts, making five inches of solid iron. This sed and bolted together, forming a close lattice-work above her gunners and affording ventilation while in action. The sides were inclined like those of the old Merrimac, and through them, in the fight with our fleet, no ball succeeded in penetrating. Her ports, of which there were two on either side, and one fore and aft, were