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the surface of the water... It was like finding a palace, with all its conveniences, under the sea. The inaccessibility, the apparent impregnability, of this submerged iron fortress are most satisfactory; the officers and crew get down through a little hole in the deck, hermetically seal themselves, and go below... A storm of cannon-shot damages them no more than a handful of dried peas. We saw the shot-marks made by the great artillery of the
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1043:(Flamethrower). The Program 4 monitors mounted their single barrel 40 mm cannon in a Mk 52 turret; while the Program 5 monitors mounted their 105 mm cannon in a T172 turret, and the six flamethrowers were mounted in M8 cupola turrets (one on each side of the vessel's 40 mm turret). Because the U.S. Marine Corps was also using the M49 105 mm howitzer, there was a shortage, and only 8
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To overcome the stability problems arising from the heavy turret mounted high in monitors, their hulls were designed to reduce other top weight. After
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It was a platform of iron, so nearly on a level with the water that the swash of the waves broke over it, under the impulse of a very moderate breeze; and on this platform was raised a circular structure, likewise of iron, and rather broad and capacious, but of no great height. It could not be called
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During World War I, the Royal Navy developed several classes of ships which were designed to give close support to troops ashore. Termed "monitors", they owed little to the monitors of the 19th century, though they shared the characteristics of poor seaworthiness, shallow draft and heavy armament in
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became more common in the later nineteenth century. These ships had raised turrets and a heavier superstructure on a platform above the hull. They were still not particularly successful as seagoing ships, because of their short sailing range and the poor reliability of their steam engines. The first
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on the outer casing of the iron tower...with no corresponding bulge on the interior surface. In fact, the thing looked altogether too safe...the circumvolutory movement of the tower, the quick thrusting forth of the immense guns to deliver their ponderous missiles, and then the immediate recoil, and
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Going on board, we were surprised at the extent and convenience of her interior accommodations. There is a spacious ward-room, nine or ten feet in height, besides a private cabin for the commander, and sleeping accommodations on an ample scale; the whole well lighted and ventilated, though beneath
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were low-freeboard, mastless, steam-powered vessels with one or two rotating, armoured turrets. The low freeboard meant that these ships were unsuitable for ocean-going duties and were always at risk of swamping, flooding and possible loss. However, it greatly reduced the cost and weight of the
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a vessel at all; it was a machine...it looked like a gigantic rat-trap. It was ugly, questionable, suspicious...devilish; for this was the new war-fiend, destined...to annihilate whole navies and batter down old supremacies. The wooden walls of Old
England cease to exist...now that the
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to accommodate ventilators and lamps above the heads of standing passengers in the centre while lower to the sides where passengers were seated were called monitors or monitor cars in the U.S.; the raised part of the roof was known as a turret. In ship design of around 1900, a
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is a monitor built in
England originally for Peru in 1865, which is still afloat in Talcahuano, Chile. Although her appearance has changed too much after the Battle of Angamos and has been reconstructed with replicas and parts of other
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were initially designed for shore bombardment, but their purpose was changed to attacking enemy merchant vessels as their 12-inch (305 mm) gun would be more effective at long range than a torpedo against a moving target. Only one,
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had had very little freeboard so as to bring the mass of the gun turret down, thereby increasing stability and making the boat a smaller and therefore harder target for gunfire. At the end of the
American Civil War, the U.S. Navy
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Attempts were made to fit monitors with sails, but the provision of masts interfered with the turrets' ability to operate in a 360-degree arc of fire and the weight of masts and sails aloft made the ships less stable. One ship,
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on 30 April 1975, all monitors fell into the enemy's hands; leaving only one survivor, a training monitor, that never left the US. "Training" monitor #C-18 is on display, along with one Swift Boat and one PBR at the
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had been redesignated as floating battery by the beginning of WW2, in which role she continued to play until the capitulation of Italy. She was then captured by the
Germans and served as monitor
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comes smoking into view; while the billows dash over what seems her deck, and storms bury even her turret in green water, as she burrows and snorts along, oftener under the surface than above...
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As fielded, the 24 monitors of the U.S. Navy in
Vietnam averaged about 10 tons of armor, were about 60 feet (18 m) long, had two screws, were powered by two 64NH9 diesel engines, 8.5
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was the U.S. Navy's second riverine war, after the
American Civil War. On 18 December 1965, the U.S. Navy, for the second time in a hundred years, authorized the reactivation of a
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By this point the United States Navy had largely stopped using monitors. Only a few still existed, and only seven were still in service, all of which had been relegated to being
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Over the years, both Chile and Peru came to venerate the ship and the officers from both sides that died on her deck, either commanding her or boarding her, as national heroes.
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high in the hull, its breadth was minimized, giving rise to a vessel broad-beamed at the waterline, but with a narrow upper deck. The term for this sort of construction was
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In addition to these ships, several monitors were built during the course of the war. Their armament typically consisted of a turret taken from a de-commissioned
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that allowed the vessels to partially submerge during battle. This idea was carried further with the concept of the Royal Navy's R class of submarine gunboats.
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monitors carried guns firing heavier shells than any other warship ever has, seeing action (albeit briefly) against German targets during World War I. The
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successfully raided enemy sea lanes for several months and delayed an invasion of the
Chilean Army into Peruvian territory until she was captured by the
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monitor built in 1864. The ship was identified as still afloat in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2015, and as of 2017 attempts are being made to restore her.
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Three months after the Battle of
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and its tributaries. These vessels were among the first to fire on
Serbian territory at the start of the First World War, and took part in the
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that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s, during the
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is a Swedish monitor built in 1875 and designed by John Ericsson the "father" of all monitors. Currently in a Maritime Museum in
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raids in the Far East, the Soviets developed a new monitor class for their river flotillas. The lead ship of the new series was
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armour required for protection, and in heavy weather the sea could wash over the deck rather than heeling the ship over.
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built many monitors before World War II, and used them mostly on rivers and lakes. After experiences during WWI, the
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In the 1860s and 1870s several nations built monitors that were used for coastal defense and took the name
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In Latin, a monitor is someone who admonishes: that is, reminds others of their duties—which is how USS
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versions could be procured for the brown-water navy.
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By analogy, nineteenth century railway coaches with
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1004:The U.S. Navy's MRF initially consisted of
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1521:The complete works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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1518:Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1883).
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1755:M (monitor) class submarines
1536:"Abercrombie Class Monitors"
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2006:Pre-dreadnought battleship
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1686:The World Crisis 1911–1918
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1733:Photos aboard USS Monitor
1708:The Duel of the Ironclads
1483:Oxford English Dictionary
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2597:Deep-submergence vehicle
2587:Cruise missile submarine
2514:Fast combat support ship
2157:Guided-missile destroyer
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1760:Erebus class statistics
1488:Oxford University Press
1010:River Assault Divisions
882:Manchukuo Imperial Navy
727:bombardment of Belgrade
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1669:Carrico, John M.
1649:Survey of Monitor
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