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    A monitor is a relatively small warship that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies...
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  • Look up Monitor, monitor, Monitors, or monitors in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Monitor or monitor may refer to: Monitor, Alberta Monitor, Indiana...
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    significant in that it was the first combat between ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. The Confederate fleet consisted of the ironclad...
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    A warship or combatant ship is a ship that is used for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the navy branch of the armed forces of a nation, though they...
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    An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result...
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    USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned...
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  • USS Monitor. The name means "a person or thing that warns or instructs"; it was suggested by the engineer John Ericsson who hoped that his warship — the...
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  • Landing craft Littoral combat ship Mine planter Minesweeper Missile boat Monitor (warship) Patrol boat Torpedo boat Patrol Torpedo (PT) boat Q-ship Seaplane...
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    River monitors are military craft designed to patrol rivers. They are normally the largest of all riverine warships in river flotillas, and mount the...
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    CSS Virginia (category Ironclad warships of the Confederate States Navy)
    CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was...
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    Ironclad Silvado Ironclad warship Brazil 1866–1880 1,335 ton Participation in Paraguayan War. Monitor Bahia Monitor (warship) United Kingdom 1866–1882...
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  • a state highway in Michigan, United States HMS M33, an M29-class monitor warship of the Royal Navy M33 cluster bomb, a Cold War-era U.S. biological...
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  • recovery vehicle, a variant of the M4 Sherman tank HMS M32, an M29-class monitor warship of the Royal Navy M32 (Cape Town), a Metropolitan Route in Cape Town...
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    Bronenosetz class, Russian: броненосец, "armor carrier" or "warship") was a class of monitors built for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. The...
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    HMS Abercrombie (F109) (category Roberts-class monitors)
    HMS Abercrombie was a Royal Navy Roberts-class monitor of the Second World War. She was the second monitor to be named after General Sir Ralph Abercrombie...
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    SMS Leitha (category Leitha-class river monitors)
    Leitha or Lajta Monitor Museumship was the first river monitor in Europe and the oldest and also the only remaining, fully restored warship of the Austro-Hungarian...
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    originally Austro-Hungarian river monitor warships used during World War I. A notable member was Bodrog (later the Yugoslav monitor Sava). They were armed with...
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  • White Mountains of New Hampshire USS Tecumseh (1863), a US Civil War monitor warship type USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628), a ballistic missile submarine HMCS Tecumseh...
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    Gun turret (section Warships)
    Thompson, Stephen C. (1990). "The Design and Construction of the USS Monitor". Warship International. XXVII (3). Toledo, Ohio: International Naval Research...
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    Turret ships were a 19th-century type of warship, the earliest to have their guns mounted in a revolving gun turret, instead of a broadside arrangement...
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    A monitor is a class of relatively small warship that is lightly armoured, often provided with disproportionately large guns, and originally designed for...
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    Song". Half Moon Bay is also home to HMVS Cerberus, the last surviving monitor warship in the world, which acts as a breakwater. Half Moon Bay has a lifesaving...
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  • "Sunday Monitor" The Monitor, sometimes used as shorthand for the Christian Science Monitor USS Monitor, the United States Navy's first ironclad warship The...
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    warships, drawing upon lessons learned from the first USS Monitor, which he also designed. The Passaic monitors were larger than the original Monitor...
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    A breastwork monitor was a modification of the monitor, a warship which was first built in the United States in 1861, designed by John Ericsson and distinguished...
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    2008-04-08. Bojerud, Stellan (1986). "Monitors and Armored Gunboats of the Royal Swedish Navy, Part 1". Warship International. XXIII (2). International...
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    during World War II. She was named after the original USS Monitor (the first ironclad warship commissioned by the USN and the first U.S. Naval vessel to...
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  • Thumbnail for Brazilian monitor Solimões (1875)
    Solimões was an armored monitor operated by the Imperial Brazilian Navy. The warship was built at the French shipyard Forges et chantiers de la Méditrranée...
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    The Arkansas-class monitors were the last class of four monitors ordered for the U.S. Navy. Single turreted monitors, these ships mounted the most modern...
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    Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare and then subsequently used for more specialized roles in surface...
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