. The railroad and engineering journal . Before and abaft the casemate was a pro-tective deck below the water-line, provided with Tlie motive power was provided for by fourpowerful compact engines to each of two independentscrew-propellers. The loading and training of the gunswas to be done by machinery, and the guns, instead of be-ing within the casemate, were in barbette on top of was made for partially submerging the batteryfor action by the admission of water into compartments,which could be quickly emptied again by powerful the fir
. The railroad and engineering journal . Before and abaft the casemate was a pro-tective deck below the water-line, provided with Tlie motive power was provided for by fourpowerful compact engines to each of two independentscrew-propellers. The loading and training of the gunswas to be done by machinery, and the guns, instead of be-ing within the casemate, were in barbette on top of was made for partially submerging the batteryfor action by the admission of water into compartments,which could be quickly emptied again by powerful the first of her magnificent arrayof armor-clads. Neitherwere the other maritime powers of Europe asleep. - At this time the whole question of armor—of its manu-facture, its distribution, its proper thickness was in atransition state. Although the first iron-clads built wereof the then existing type of fighting ships, yet the idea ofputting guns in a revolving armored turret, upon a vessel oflow free-board, was not a new one. Its advantages hadbeen discussed in English naval circles fully a twelvemonthbefore the Monitor was decided upon. As a matter offact, work on a sea-going armored turret vessel had beenbegun by the Danish Government before the contract forthe building the Monitor had been signed. Whether it was Captain Ericsson, Captain Coles or who first conceived the idea of a revolving turret forwar-ships or batteries, it is certain that to the former be-longs the honor of being the first to push to completion avessel of this description. Not only this, but it appear
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