Very OT: USS Monitor's guns...

Bri in Chi · Sep 11, 2004

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=75367&ran=172688
This is fascinating to me. As a kid, I built models of the USS Montor and the CSS Virginia (ne: Merrimac) and I'm elated that we're doing this.

BruiseLeee · Sep 11, 2004

Looks kinda cramped in there. How many folks would be in there to work the guns?

Bri in Chi · Sep 11, 2004

Dunno, but the site has a ton of info on the ship.

Rusty · Sep 11, 2004

Beautiful! I'm within range of several ghost towns.

Matter of fact, if it wasn't the county seat and on the main North/South route between Reno and Vegas, the town where I live would be a ghost town, surrounded by what was once the free world's larget ammunition depot.

Aardvark · Sep 12, 2004

Thanks, Brian. The Civil War ironclads are one of my favorite historical subjects, too.

Yvsa · Sep 12, 2004

Here's a couple more sites that are interesting. A search on Google brings up several sites of interest. I never realized the Monitor was as big as it is amd double hulled at that!!!!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/12/1204_031205_monitor.html http://www.mariner.org/monitor/

Very OT: USS Monitor's guns...

Bri in Chi

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