Also included in the Timby and the Monitor blog was a drawing of what Theodore Timby believed his revolving turret would look like on a ship. The one he designed also had a low freeboard and looked a whole like Ericsson's Monitor. Only, the pilot house was on top of the turret instead of on the deck.
This was sent to China in 1842 at the suggestion of Caleb Cushing, whom I have written about in this blog as the name of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Charles Read was going to attack in Portland, Maine, was named after him.
Another drawing in the blog showed how the turret was to turn. Also a cutaway of the turret tower which had three levels.
There was also a patent for an improvement in Timby's Revolving Battery-Towers.
--Old B-Runner
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