Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . was rigged with structed a floating battery in Charlestontwo stout masts, each of which supported harbor in the winter of 1861. It was aa large lateen-yard and sails. She had curious monster, made of heavy pinetwo bowsprits and jibs, and four rud- timber, filled in with palmetto-logs, andders, one at each extremity of each boat, covered with a double layer of railroadso that she might be iron. It appeared like an immense shed,steered with either 25 feet in width, and, with its ap
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . was rigged with structed a floating battery in Charlestontwo stout masts, each of which supported harbor in the winter of 1861. It was aa large lateen-yard and sails. She had curious monster, made of heavy pinetwo bowsprits and jibs, and four rud- timber, filled in with palmetto-logs, andders, one at each extremity of each boat, covered with a double layer of railroadso that she might be iron. It appeared like an immense shed,steered with either 25 feet in width, and, with its appendage,end foremost. Her about 100 feet in length. It mounted inmachinery was cal- its front (which sloped inwards from itsculated for an addi- iron-clad roof) four enormous siege-guns,tional engine, which The powder magazine was in the rear, be-might discharge an low the water-line, and at its extremity g^. ^ 1 ^.^ . immense volume of was a platform covered with sand-bags, l^^^^^i- water which it was to protect its men and balance the heavy I ^feii f intended to throw guns. Attached to it was a floating hos-. 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
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