Monday, August 16, 2021

USS Nantucket Statistics-- Part 2: A 15-inch and an 11-inch Smoothbores in Turret

DRAFT:  10 feet 6 inches

PROPULSION:  2 Martin boilers, 1-shaft Ericsson vibrating  lever engine, 320 ihp.

SPEED:  7 knots

COMPLEMENT:  75 officers and enlisted

ARMAMENT:  one 15-inch smoothbore, one 11-ince Dahlgren smoothbore

ARMOR:  Iron

Side:  5-3 inch

Turret;  11 inches

Deck:  1-inch

It is too bad that one of the Civil War monitors was not kept to be used as a museum shop for future generations.

--Old B-Runner


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