. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . . j#r COPTRIGNT, TJII, FIEVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE SINGLE TURRETED U. S. MONITOR SAUGUS aiid one of her sister-ships, the Canonicus, gave her name to the chiss. The most famous of the nine wasthe Tecumseh. Her bold eommander, T. A. , in an effort to grapple with the Confederate ramTennessee in Mobile Bay, ran through the line of torpedoes and lost his ship, which had fired the firsttwo guns in Farraguts brilliant battle. Ericsson did not approve of the principle of the double-turretedmonitor. In the Saugus is well exemplifie
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . . j#r COPTRIGNT, TJII, FIEVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE SINGLE TURRETED U. S. MONITOR SAUGUS aiid one of her sister-ships, the Canonicus, gave her name to the chiss. The most famous of the nine wasthe Tecumseh. Her bold eommander, T. A. , in an effort to grapple with the Confederate ramTennessee in Mobile Bay, ran through the line of torpedoes and lost his ship, which had fired the firsttwo guns in Farraguts brilliant battle. Ericsson did not approve of the principle of the double-turretedmonitor. In the Saugus is well exemplified his principle of mounting guns in such a manner tliat theycould be brought to bear in any direction. This object was defeated somewhat in the double-turretedtype, since each turret masked a considerable angle of fire of the other. The Saugus, together with theTecumseh and Canonicus and the Onondaga, served in the .six-hour action with Battery Dantzlerand the Confederate vessels in the James River, June 21, 186-1. Again on August 13th .she locked hornswith
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