Today marks the 147th anniversary of the historic battle between the great Civil War ironclads the USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack. I have always been fascinated by this whole concept of these primitive steel vessels duking it out with cannons, but especially liked the look of the Monitor with its giant turret (20ft H x 90ft W!)
very informative essay here.
For fear of this turning into a Civil War blog (which I easily could), let me point out that the Monitor was built here in Brooklyn, by a Swedish Engineer.
Greenpoint to be exact.
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