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Case in point, John Ericsson's previous major project, the USS Princeton. Ericsson designed it to mount a single twelve-inch carronade and included an excellent gun of his own design for it, but the complete imbecile Captain Stockton insisted he wanted two big guns and took it upon himself to...

Lost with all hands is incorrect; sixteen men were lost, forty-seven were rescued by lifeboats from the steamship USS Rhode Island, which was towing Monitor on her final voyage. That's correct. Early turrets like Monitor's were essentially a completely enclosed armored box which was mounted on...