Veteran naval historian Fuller ... hulled vesel into ironclad. These ships were armed in broadside, just as the vessels they replaced. Then in 1862 the United States introduced the Monitor, with a ...

Paget tells us have cost nearer half than a quarter of a million each, are not seaworthy, is it not a pity that in the year 1865 we should have no sea-going turret ship in the British navy which ...