The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving ... As the first of its kind ever to be installed on a ship, the Monitor’s 115-ton revolving gun turret represented a major technological ...

Veteran naval historian Fuller, author of Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power and other works, takes a look at the crisis in British capital ship ... ironclad ...

Here, too, in the wardroom, commissioned officers shared meals, debated politics and discussed their innovative little ironclad ... ship was loaded. In the middle sat the gigantic and ungainly ...