Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . upon the decks andthrough the port-holes of an enemy,and thereby delugeher armament andammunition. The most extravagantstories concerning this monster of the SECTION OF THE FLOATING BATTEEY FCTLTON. pital. It was intended to tow thismonster to a position so as to bring itsguns to bear on Fort Sumter. Stevenss floating battery was a moreformidable structure. This battery hadbeen in process of construction byMessrs. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., fordeep went forth at about the time o
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . upon the decks andthrough the port-holes of an enemy,and thereby delugeher armament andammunition. The most extravagantstories concerning this monster of the SECTION OF THE FLOATING BATTEEY FCTLTON. pital. It was intended to tow thismonster to a position so as to bring itsguns to bear on Fort Sumter. Stevenss floating battery was a moreformidable structure. This battery hadbeen in process of construction byMessrs. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., fordeep went forth at about the time of her several years before the Civil War. Itbeing launched. In a treatise on steam was intended solely for harbor defence,vessels, published in Scotland soon after- Already there had been about $1,000,000wards, the author said: Her length spent upon it, chiefly by the United States 387. IXOATING BATTERIES War ended. Thefollowing is aportion of thespecific a tion: The boat isframed on anangle of abouteighteen degreesall round the ves-sel, where the toptimbers elevatethe balls, andthe lower onesdirect them un-der her. Thetop deck, whichglances the ball,may be hung ona mass of hingesnear the deck is sup-ported by kneesand cross-timberson the lowersides, so that itmay be sprungwith powder, ifrequired (whenboarded by the enemy), to a perpendicular,when the said deck will be checked bystays, while the power of powder will beexhausted in the open air, and then fall orspring to the centre of the deck aforesaid deck will run up and downwith the angle, which may be coppered orlaid with iron. The gun - deck may bebored at pleasure, to give room, if re-quired, as the men and guns are undersaid deck. The power is applied betweenintended for a battery of sixteen heavy her keels, where there is a concave formedrifled cannon in bomb-proof casemates, to receive t
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