. The uplift [serial] . The Merrimac destroyed at the burning of the Norfolk Navy Yard, April, 1861. two iron plates two inches thickand seven inches wide, one laid hor-izontally and the other vertically,making the armament four inchesthick. These plates were boltedthrough the wood and clinched onthe inside. Her bow was armed be-low the water with a east-iron prowabout six feet long, to be used as Her weakest element was hermotive power, her old engines andboilers having already been condemn-ed. Her ordinance consisted of tenguns, two 7-inch steel-banded Brookerifles, mounted as pivot-g
. The uplift [serial] . The Merrimac destroyed at the burning of the Norfolk Navy Yard, April, 1861. two iron plates two inches thickand seven inches wide, one laid hor-izontally and the other vertically,making the armament four inchesthick. These plates were boltedthrough the wood and clinched onthe inside. Her bow was armed be-low the water with a east-iron prowabout six feet long, to be used as Her weakest element was hermotive power, her old engines andboilers having already been condemn-ed. Her ordinance consisted of tenguns, two 7-inch steel-banded Brookerifles, mounted as pivot-guns at the- ; 1 Georgian, btsM 1 .w Portsmouth^ >p ;r, a witnessr i l*1 at took placed: ? r ?•:: s, and whoseSig t. r.» ve at hand^s rginia, th»« - i*iv e was coverall [ v oof 170 feet|| C IV f 45 degreeaafi ?.. heart piniflB ur-inch oak&? g there wereSfe THE UPLIFT 13. •oyed at theNavy YardS inches thickjDne laid hoir vertically,^four incheswere boltedSclinched onMis armed be-rlj|st-iron prow*je used as a |.ent was hers|engines andi|ien condemn-*!isted of ten-jSmded Brooke*guns at the-v nil stern; two 6-ineh rifles of thePattern and six 9-inch Dahlgren ,,h-bore broadside guns. Her,.,.,„£« was Commodore , one of the bravest and. , officers of the old service. Her„„,! ;„ command was Lieut. Cates-Vl. R Jones, distinguished bothVbility and great gallantry. Her numbered 350, most of whomi v„lunteered from the army foroccasion, and the emergencies ol
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