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excellent officers referred to throughout the labors on the Virginia, and they have all exhibited signal energy and zeal. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy. [Italics mine.] On the 11th of April the Examiner published Mr. Porter's reply to the Secretary's report. Who planned the Virginia? Navy yard, Gosport, April 8, 1862. To the Editor of the Examiner: Under this caption I find in the Examiner of the 4th instant a report of the Secretary of the Navy to Congress, giving a detailed statement of the origin of the iron-clad Virginia. I feel sorry to have to reply to this report, inasmuch as it is published over the signature of the Secretary; and my friends will not fail to see the embarrassing position it places me in, in consequence of my relations with the Navy Department, and furthermore my intercourse with the Secretary since I have held my present position in the Southern Confederacy has be
April 4th (search for this): chapter 1.1
made but for the delay which would have attended it. The ship is now deficient in that respect. The sixth proposition was to put six inches of iron on bow and stern. Approved by the Secretary but omitted, from your statement that the ship would not carry it. John M. Brooke, Lieutenant, C. S. Navy. The faulty arrangement of the wheel-ropes was brought to my notice by Lieutenant Jones. A similar arrangement was the immediate cause of the loss of the iron-clad Tennessee. On the 4th of April Secretary Mallory's report to the House of Representatives appeared in the Examiner. Confederate States Navy Department, Richmond, March 29, 1862. Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sir: In compliance with the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the 18th instant, That the Secretary of the Navy be requested to make a report to this House of the plan and construction of the Virginia, so far as the same can be properly communicated, of the
Merrimac (search for this): chapter 1.1
Williamson then said that the engines of the Merrimac could, he thought, be put in working conditiod, in fact, no other plan could have made the Merrimac an effective ship. Her guns now command everspatch to make the changes in the form of the Merrimac, and to build, equip and fit her in all respe is rather obscure. You say: After the Merrimac was in progress some time, Lieutenant Brooke ent. The following is the report upon the Merrimac: In obedience to your orders we have carr and report upon the best mode of making the Merrimac useful was equivalent to appointing us member originated the design or plan applied to the Merrimac. The concluding part of this report says: ication connecting Mr. Porter's name with the Merrimac, had appeared at an earlier date, I wrote to ay-Book, giving the credit of the plan of the Merrimac to John L. Porter. The extraordinary chara suitable to the purpose. The boilers of the Merrimac were good, and as the chief-engineer was of o[22 more...]
McCorkle (search for this): chapter 1.1
the heart. It knocked me down for a second or so, but I got up and cheered my men, some of whom were panic-stricken by the shower of balls, though they rallied when I got them to the Teazer. Send the signal book! When I can be moved the doctors will send me to Richmond, where a spell of a few weeks will put me on my pins again. Make my kind regards to Mrs. Brooke; and with the hope that you are in better health, I am ever your friend, R. D. Minor. Remember me to Volcke, to McCorkle, and Upshur. The Commodore had the signal Sink before Surrender arranged before the action. Tell this to Mallory, for I hardly think that old Buch. will ever do so. N. B.—There will doubtless be an attempt made to transfer the great credit of planning the Virginia to other hands than your own. So look out for them, for to you it belongs, and the Secretary should say so in communicating his report of the victory to Congress. By no means must any captain or commodore or even flag-off
June 10th (search for this): chapter 1.1
ry to have to reply to this report, inasmuch as it is published over the signature of the Secretary; and my friends will not fail to see the embarrassing position it places me in, in consequence of my relations with the Navy Department, and furthermore my intercourse with the Secretary since I have held my present position in the Southern Confederacy has been of the most friendly kind; but justice to myself requires that I should reply to it. The report commences by stating that on the 10th of June Lieutenant Brooke was directed to aid the Department in designing an iron-clad war vessel and framing the necessary specifications, and in a few days submitted to the Department rough drawings of a casemated vessel with submerged ends and inclined iron-plated sides, the ends of the vessel and the eaves of the casemates to be submerged two feet. I do not doubt the statements of the Secretary, but no such plans were submitted to the board; and from the fact that the master-carpenter had ret
June 23rd (search for this): chapter 1.1
, and is destined to cast much glory on our infant navy, it may be of general interest to publish some account of the origin of this magnificent ship. On the 23d of June a board consisting of W. P. Williamson, chief engineer; John M. Brooke, lieutenant; and John L. Porter, naval constructor; met in Richmond by order of the Secrele to make the drawings, and the Department then ordered Chief Engineer Williamson and Constructor Porter, from the navy yard at Norfolk, to Richmond, about the 23d of June, for consultation on the same subject generally, and to aid in the work. Constructor Porter brought and submitted the model of a flat-bottomed, light-draft prongs for Lieutenant Brooke, and the Department then ordered Chief-Engineer Williamson and Constructor Porter from the navy-yard at Norfolk to Richmond, about the 23d of June, for consultation on the same subject generally, and to aid in the work. I do not understand this part of the report exactly; but if it is intended to convey t
June 25th (search for this): chapter 1.1
adopted. Her boilers were good, and her engines only partially destroyed, and could be repaired in less time than would be required to construct an engine for a new vessel of light draft. It was found that the plan of Lieutenant Brooke could easily be applied to the Merrimac, and, in fact, no other plan could have made the Merrimac an effective ship. Her guns now command every point of the horizon. A report was made up by the above-named officers to the Secretary of the Navy on the 25th of June, in accordance with these facts, and the Secretary ordered the work to commence forthwith. Experiments to determine the mode of applying the armor and to fix the dimensions of its parts were conducted by Lieutenant Brooke. From the moment that the plan was adopted the Secretary of the Navy urged the work forward with all the means at the command of the government and without regard to expense; and from this day to the day of the Virginia's egress from the dock there were from one t
July 11th (search for this): chapter 1.1
of the Virginia myself, and, unaided by any one, placed the very same shield on her which was on the model I carried up with me before this board met. On the 11th day of July I returned to Richmond with this drawing, and presented it to Secretary Mallory, who immediately wrote the following order for the work with his own hand anderged ends two feet? And the only drawing I ever made of the Virginia was made in my office at this navy-yard, and which I presented to the Department on the 11th day of July, just sixteen days after this board adjourned, having been ordered to Richmond on other business. This drawing and plan I considered my own, and not Lieutennt Brooke's plan? And the only drawing I ever made of the Virginia was made in my office in this navy-yard, and which I presented to the Department on the 11th day of July. * * * This drawing and plan I considered my own, and not Lieutenant Brooke's plan. So soon as I presented this plan the Secretary wrote the following order
July 29th (search for this): chapter 1.1
teen years from the 29th day of July, 1862, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, the said improvement, a description whereof is given in the words of the said Brooke in the schedule hereunto annexed, and is made a part of these presents. In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Patent Office has been hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at the city of Richmond, this 29th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1862. Seal of the Patent Office, (Our First President.) Confederate States of America. (Signed) T. H. Watts, Attorney-General. Countersigned and sealed with the seal of the Patent Office. Rufus H. Rhodes, Commissioner of Patents. Specifications annexed to Patent No. 100, granted to John M. Brooke, July 29, 1862: To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, John M. Brooke, a lieutenant in the Navy of the Confederate States, have i
March 22nd (search for this): chapter 1.1
e most intricate character, and have caused me many sleepless nights in making them, but all have turned out right, and thanks are due to a kind Providence whose blessings on my efforts I have many times invoked. I must say I was astonished at the success of the Virginia. She destroyed the Cumberland in fifteen minutes, and in thirty more the Congress was captured. The Minnesota would have shared the same fate, but she got aground, and the Virginia could not get at her. In the Whig of March 22, appeared the following letter: The Virginia. Richmond, March 18, 1862. To the Editor of the Whig: As the brilliant success of the Virginia has attracted the attention of all the country, and is destined to cast much glory on our infant navy, it may be of general interest to publish some account of the origin of this magnificent ship. On the 23d of June a board consisting of W. P. Williamson, chief engineer; John M. Brooke, lieutenant; and John L. Porter, naval constructor; met in
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