. Naval power in the war (1914-1917). U. S. S. PENNSYLVANIA (ist) 1837, Ship-of-the-line(three decker) From the Lithograph by N. Currier in the Collection of the MarineMuseum, Boston, Mass. By Courtesy of the Society. Rate, 120 guns. 16, 8 in. 104, 32 pr. Total, 120. Complemen:..1,100. Tonnage, 3,241. Laid down, 1822. Completed, 1837, Phila-delphia. Cost, $694,500. Annual cost in commission, $382,: Originally this Pennsylvania carried 140 guns. The abovedata is quoted from the Navy Register of July 1, 1850. The less known fight in Wassaw Sound in 1863 estab-lished the superiority of a
. Naval power in the war (1914-1917). U. S. S. PENNSYLVANIA (ist) 1837, Ship-of-the-line(three decker) From the Lithograph by N. Currier in the Collection of the MarineMuseum, Boston, Mass. By Courtesy of the Society. Rate, 120 guns. 16, 8 in. 104, 32 pr. Total, 120. Complemen:..1,100. Tonnage, 3,241. Laid down, 1822. Completed, 1837, Phila-delphia. Cost, $694,500. Annual cost in commission, $382,: Originally this Pennsylvania carried 140 guns. The abovedata is quoted from the Navy Register of July 1, 1850. The less known fight in Wassaw Sound in 1863 estab-lished the superiority of a few big guns in turrets overa greater number in casemates. The Atlanta, a Con-federate casemate ironclad of the type of the Virginia,came out to destroy two monitors, with two excursionsteamers to watch the destruction. The monitor Wee-hazvken fired just five shots—and the contest was ended 216. Copyrighl, E. Muller U. S. S. -PENNSYLVANIA, 1916 Guns—12, 14 in. 22, 5 in. Total, 34. Complement, 1,100. Ton-nage, Laid down, 1913. Completed, 1916. Built at New-port News. Cost, $14,000,000. 217 218 APPENDIX for all time in favour of big guns in turrets. The all-big-gun ship commands the sea in this war—and the big gunsin turrets have never been supplanted. In the Monitor type, from one to two turrets was but astep, and many such monitors were built. Then camethe Roanoke (1863), another stage in the developmentof the Monitor. The Roanoke was a sea-going turretvessel with three turrets, all aligned over the were the essentials of the dreadnought of to-day,^and this American design of big guns in turrets, alignedover the keel, has prevailed over all other types of ar-moured warships. Foreign navies have been reluctant to accept this de-sign. They have built all kinds of armoured ships, and ontheir turret vessels used various arrangements of theturrets. English an
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