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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