. Naval power in the war (1914-1917). AMERICAN ARMED BARQUE STAMBOUL, OF BOSTON, ATMARSEILLES, 1844. fast to our Navys consistent policy of making the gunall-important. The Civil War brought about still greater advancesin American heavily armed warships, which revolution-ised naval ships and naval tactics throughout the attack in Hampton Roads on the Union fleet by theAlerrimac, converted into the casemate ironclad Virginiaby the Confederates, showed decisively the helplessnessof wooden ships against armoured ships. The fight thatfollowed between the Virginia and the first turret shi
. Naval power in the war (1914-1917). AMERICAN ARMED BARQUE STAMBOUL, OF BOSTON, ATMARSEILLES, 1844. fast to our Navys consistent policy of making the gunall-important. The Civil War brought about still greater advancesin American heavily armed warships, which revolution-ised naval ships and naval tactics throughout the attack in Hampton Roads on the Union fleet by theAlerrimac, converted into the casemate ironclad Virginiaby the Confederates, showed decisively the helplessnessof wooden ships against armoured ships. The fight thatfollowed between the Virginia and the first turret ship,the Monitor, was the first challenge to guns in casematesby guns in turrets. The construction of the epoch-mak-ing Monitor had been hurried, and she was defective inmany ways. Consequently, although the Monitor savedthe Union fleet, the question of superiority between thetwo types remained undecided in many minds. 215. 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
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