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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MONITOR 1862–1973

Pages 293-310 | Published online: 22 Mar 2013

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  • 1962 . Dictator 34 – 35 . and others of her kind drew twenty feet and had difficulties attacking shore targets protected by shallow water: Robert MacBride, Civil War Ironclads, Philadelphia
  • MacBride . 1933 . 11 – 12 . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . op. cit. pp.; James P. Baxter, The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship, pp. 181–195
  • Monitor: Ericsson's 987 tons, 173 ft × 41 ft 7 in × 11 ft 4 in, 14-inch freeboard (raft freeboard), 7 kts., two 11-inch smoothbores
  • Parkes , Oscar . 1970 . British Battleships 44 – 48 . London : Seeley . Service
  • Rolt , L. T. C. 1957 . Isambard Kingdom Brunel 221 – 223 . London : Longmans, Green .
  • Wilson , H. W. Ironclads in Action 220 2 vols., London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1896, 11
  • Napier , J. 1904 . Life of Robert Napier of West Shandon 25 – 26 . Edinburgh/London:
  • Ib. 197 – 198 . Dimensions: 186 ft × 48 ft 6 in, with 4½ in of iron armour on a six-inch teak backing
  • Ib.
  • Baxter . 181 – 183 . op. cit.
  • Bennett , F. M. 1900 . The Monitor and the Navy under Steam 82 Boston : Houghton Mifflin .
  • MacBride . 13 – 22 . op. cit.
  • The peculiarity of Ericsson's original scheme was that it consisted of a submerged hull attached to a raft, a conception that contributed heavily to the poor seaworthiness and habitability of all Ericsson monitors
  • Keeler , F. W. 253 Aboard the Monitor: 2009, U.S. Naval Institute, 1964, pp. ff
  • 1862 . Monitor 119 – 213 . Even the original spent a good part of her brief career (from mid-May to the end of August up the James river: Keeler, op. cit.
  • Designed by G. W. Quintard over Ericsson's objections
  • MacBride . 40 – 41 . op. cit.
  • Pratt , F. 1941 . The Navy: A History 340 []
  • This situation led the Confederate Navy to concoct schemes for putting monitors out of action by boarding them, jamming their turrets, and pouring water into the ventilation system
  • MacBride . 1896 . 44 – 490 . op. cit. p.; F. M. Bennett, The Steam Navy of the United States, Pittsburgh: W. T. Nicholson, pp. 489
  • MacBride . 61 op. cit.
  • Ib. 62
  • Dorsey , F. 1947 . Road to the Sea: The Story of James B. Eads and the Mississippi River 77 – 86 . New York:, pp. and 90
  • 1895–1922 . Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion 136 U.S., Navy Department, 30 vols., Washington:, Series II, Vol. I, pp. and 199. Dimensions: 170 ft × 50 ft × 6 ft 6 in. Wooden hulls, iron armour; disposed of in 1873
  • 1882–1883 . Ib. 138 – 139 . T. Brassey, The British Navy, Longmans, Green, Vol. I, Pt. 1, p. 146
  • Macbride . 73 – 74 . op. cit.
  • Dunderberg as designed, had two turrets on top of her casemate, thus anticipating the classic format of the pre-dreadnought battleship
  • MacBride . 70 – 71 . op. cit. pp. H.M.S. Hotspur, as launched and originally equipped, had a single fixed turret with four openings for her big gun. Keokuk had fixed turrets with multiple ports for her guns
  • 1862 . Monitor foundered at sea in. Weehawken was badly damaged in action and sank at anchor from leaks, 1863. Tecumseh was mined in 1864 at Mobile Bay. Osage, Milwaukee, and Patapsco were all ‘torpedoed’ in 1865
  • Knowles , J. A. Jr. 1973 . “ ‘Blue Water Monitor,’ ” . In USNIP Vol. 99 , 78 – 89 . (March, pp., and C. W. Schedel, ‘Comment and Discussion,’ USNIP (August, 1973), p. 96. The Anglo-French Kinburn batteries and later French variants, down to 1866, when the last one was completed, bear a certain resemblance to the Virginia type of casemate ram, even to the details that both types, in general, were underpowered and difficult to steer. For the French floating batteries, with illustrations and particulars, see De Balincourt and Vincent-Bréchignac, ‘La marine français d'hier. Les cuirassés. I. Les batteries flottantes,’ Revue Maritime (May, 1930), pp. 577–595. But the Crimean floating batteries, ‘pioneers of the ironclad fleet,’ were sophisticated compared with some other armoured batteries of the period, for example the Confederate battery at Charleston in 1861, illustrated in F. T. Miller, The Photographic History of the Civil War, New York: 1911–12, Vol. 6, p. 239: a dumb barge with a row of guns, protected on the side toward the enemy by a structure resembling a barn
  • Beskovnyi , L. G. 1973 . Russkaya Armiya i Flot v XIX veke 506 Moscow : Nauka . . These monitors were laid down before the voyage of Miantonomob, a point overlooked by Knowles
  • Ib. 508
  • 1822–1886 . Russko-Turetskaya Voina 1877–1878 gg. 459 – 36 . New York : Appleton . The fleet, nominally under the command of Hobart Pasha a swashbuckler but no organizer, was not well exercised and most of the time swung at anchor off Constantinople, where it delighted the eye of the Sultan. See N. I. Belyaev, Moscow: Voenizdat, 1956, p. cp. Anton Springer, Der Russisch-Türkische Krieg 1877–1978 in Europa, 7 vols., Vienna: Carl Koneger, 1891–1893,1, pp. 35; and F. V. Greene, Report on the Russian Army and Its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877–1878, 1879, pp. 155–156
  • Wilson , H. W. 289 – 291 . op. cit. I, pp.; Springer, op. cit., I, p. 76
  • 1904 . Almanacb für die k. 359 und k. Kriegs-Marine 1904, Pola: Gerold
  • Brassey , T. A. , ed. 1874 . The Naval Annual 1899 326 Built as a river monitor at La Seyne, 553 tons. Relegated to a torpedo training role around the turn of the century: Portsmouth: J. Griffin, 1899
  • Statesman's Year Book 1879 654
  • Groener , Erich . Die Deutscben Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945 52 2 vols., Munich: Lehmann, 1966, I. pp., 58, and 199
  • Gogg , K. 1967 . Österreicbs Kriegsmarine 1848–1918 51 – 53 . Salzburg/Stuttgart: Verlag Das Bergland-Buch
  • Wilson , H. W. 213 op. cit. I
  • Parkes . 244 – 246 . op. cit.
  • MacBride . 1969 . 45 – 418 . op. cit. p. They were known as Atahualpa, Manco Capac under the Peruvian flag. For Huascar, see C. Lopez Urrutia, Historia de la Marina de Chile, Santiago: Editorial Andres Bello, pp. 417, with illustrations of the Battle of Angamos and Huascar in 1879
  • 1959–60 . Subsidies para a Histiria maritima do Brasil 14 – 19 . Brazil, Ministerio da Marinha, XVIII pp., with illustration. Bahia, not U.S.S. Miantonomob, appears to have been the first monitor to undertake a trans-Atlantic voyage, arriving at Guanabara ‘after a dreadful passage of thirty days.’
  • Brazil . 1967 . “ Ministerio da Marinha ” . In Subsidios 97 – 98 . XXIII pp. She was disarmed in 1883
  • 1865 . 259 For the Paraguayan War, which began in, the Brazilians, according to H. W. Wilson, op. cit. I, p., assembled a fleet which included, in addition to other ships, ten single-and double-turret monitors and six single-turret river monitors, including Alagoas, Para, and Rio Grande.
  • Parkes . 69 – 72 . op. cit.
  • Ib. 166 – 170 .
  • Ib. 177 – 182 . Parkes calls Rupert ‘a Hotspur armed with a Glatton turret…' The illustration in Napier, op. cit., p. 158, clearly shows the ports in the fixed turret
  • Jane , F. T. 50 – 52 . All the World's Fighting Ships 2009, London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1898, pp., 56 and 65
  • Marder , A. J. 1961 . From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow 43 – 45 . London : Oxford University Press . 1, pp.; W. Hovgaard, The Modern History of Warships, Annapolis, Md.: USNI, 1971, pp. 73–86
  • British Battleships. The entire development is admirably traced by O. Parkes in
  • 1883 . Miantonomob Terror were completed in, as were Monadnock and Amphitrite. Puritan was not completed until c. 1895
  • Pratt . The Navy 359
  • Jane , F. T. 153 – 56 . Jane's Fighting Ships 2009, London, Sampson Low, Marston, 1906
  • MacBride . 46 op. cit.
  • Tolley , Kemp . 1971 . Yangtze Patrol 70 Annapolis, Md.: USNI
  • 1918 – 133 . London : MacMillan . Weyers Taschenbuch der Kriegsflotten 2009, Munich: Lehmann, pp. 132; F. N. McMurtrie, Jane's Fighting Ships 1942, 1943, p. 385
  • 1968 . M 25 141 London : Collins . M 27 after participating in the intervention in northern Russia could not be got out and had to be destroyed: S. W. Roskill, Naval Policy between the Wars, 1
  • Le Fleming , H. M. 1967 . Warships of World War I 216 – 222 . * London: Ian Allan, pp. The Abercrombies, Lord Clives, Marshals, and Terrors all had relatively high freeboards and the look of miniaturized dreadnoughts
  • Ib. 279 and 304–305
  • Ib. 216
  • Marder . 15 op. cit. V
  • Sokol , A. E. 1968 . The Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy 125 Annapolis, USNI, p., and Lega Navale Italiana, La marina italiana nella guerra mondiale 1951–1918, Roma: L.N.I., 1920, pp. 68–70 and 90.
  • Roskill , S. W. 1954 . The War at Sea 423 I
  • British and Dominion Warships of World War II 24 – 25 . H. T. Lenton and J. J. Colledge, Garden City, N.Y.: 1968
  • 1956 . Ib. 335 London : HMSO . Roskill, War at Sea, II, p. ib., 1960, III, Pt. 1, pp. 127, 138–139, 162, 164 and 176
  • 621 British LCG(L) 3's and 4's (Lenton and Colledge, op. cit. p.) and related U.S. types and the German Artillerie-Fahrprähme exhibited some monitor characteristics and played monitor roles during World War II
  • Winton , John . 1970 . The Forgotten Fleet 398 New York:
  • Sokol , A. Vol. 59 , 75 – 76 . op. cit. pp., 92–93. Cp. Olaf R. Wulff, Die öst.-ung. Donauflottille im Weltkrieg 2009, Vienna and Leipzig: Verlag W. Braumüller, 1934, and E. Glaise von Horstenau and R. Kiszling, österreicb-Ungarns Letzter Krieg, 7 vols., Vienna: Verlag Der Militärwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 1930–38, esp. Vols. I–III and V–VII. Cp. F. Pratt, ‘The Inland Navy of Austria,’ USNIP, Vol., N0. 7 (September 1933), pp. 1269–1275
  • Bagrov , V. N. and Sungorkin , N. F. 1970 . Krasnoznamennaya Amurskaya Flotiliya 154 – 155 . Moscow : Progress Publishers . Moscow: Voenizdat,. See Sovetskaya Istoricheskaya Entsiklopediya, 13 vols., Moscow, 1961-,1, 476, Amurskaya Voennaya flotiliya' and M. V. Zakharov, Finale…Imperialist Japan's Defeat in 1945, 1972
  • McMurtrie , F. N. 124 Jane's Fighting Ships, 2009
  • Blackman , R. V. B. Jane's Fighting Ships 1971–72 35
  • 1972 . Ib 521 – 22 . J. S. Rowe and S. L. Morison, Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet 9th edition, Annapolis, USNI, pp. 103–104
  • 1973 . Monitor American newspapers in mid-July reported that the wreck of U.S.S. had been discovered thirty-five fathoms deep off the eastern side of Hatteras Island, North Carolina

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