Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . 0,1775, said: Please to fix some particu-lar color for a flag and a signal, by whichour vessels may know each other. Whatdo you think of a flag with a white ground,a tree in the middle, and the motto AnAppeal to Heaven? This is the flag ofour floating batteries. When the War of1812-15 broke out, the subject of harbordefences occupied much of the attentionof citizens of the American coast towns,especially in the city of New the scientific men of the day, JohnStevens and
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . 0,1775, said: Please to fix some particu-lar color for a flag and a signal, by whichour vessels may know each other. Whatdo you think of a flag with a white ground,a tree in the middle, and the motto AnAppeal to Heaven? This is the flag ofour floating batteries. When the War of1812-15 broke out, the subject of harbordefences occupied much of the attentionof citizens of the American coast towns,especially in the city of New the scientific men of the day, JohnStevens and Robert Fulton appear con-spicuous in proposing plans for that pur-pose. Earlier than this (in 1807), Abra-ham Bloodgood, of Albany, suggested theconstruction of a floating revolving bat-tery not unlike, in its essential character,the revolving turret built by CaptainEricsson in the winter of 1861-62. InMarch, 1814, Thomas Gregg, of Pennsylva-nia, obtained a patent for a proposed iron-clad steam vessel-of-war, resembling infigure the gunboats and rams used duringthe Civil about the same time a plan of a. He died in THE FIRST AMERICAN FLOATING BATTERY. floating battery submitted by Robert Ful-ton was approved by naval oSicers. Itwas in the form of a steamship of pecul-iar construction, that might move at therate of 4 miles an hour, and furnished, inaddition to its regular armament, withsubmarine guns. Her construction wasordered by Congress, and she was built atthe ship-yard of Adam and Noah Brown,at Corlears Hook, New York, under thesupervision of Fulton. She was launchedOct. 29, 1814. Her machinery was testedin May following, and on July 4, 1815,she made a trial-trip of 53 miles to theocean and back, going at the rate of 6miles an hour. This vessel was called 386
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