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Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937 by Webber, Richard H.,1939-;

Bibliography: pages 47-48.

Subjects: United States. Navy.; Turret ships;

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Drawings of the U.S.S. Monitor : a catalog and technical analysis / by Peterkin, Ernest W.(CARDINAL)201822; North Carolina.Division of Archives and History.(CARDINAL)140910; United States.National Ocean Service.Sanctuary Programs Division.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-586) and index.

Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad); Turret ships; Turret ships; Warships;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3

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Battleships / by Riggs, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)351527;

Includes bibliographical references (page 23) and index.Time to sail! -- Warring ships -- Armor and guns -- Rotating turrets -- People at work -- Follow the leader -- What do battleships do? -- Go, battleship, go! -- Picture a battleship -- Words to know."A kindergarten-level introduction to battleships, covering their captains, weapons, role in battle, and such defining features as their decks"--390LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Battleships;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5

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The American steel navy; a photographic history of the U.S. Navy from the introduction of the steel hull in 1883 to the cruise of the Great White Fleet, 1907-1909 / by Alden, John Doughty,1921-2014.(CARDINAL)148085;

Bibliography: pages 388-389.Forging a modern steel navy : Construction and repair -- Arms and armor -- Engineering and the black gang -- Communications and command -- organization and the shore establishment. Men and operations of the American steel navy : Officer personnel and training -- Blujackets of the steel navy -- A sailor's life on ship and shore -- The marines have landed -- Fleet operations and foreign ports -- Remember the Maine! -- The Great White Fleet. Personalities of the American steel navy -- Anatomy of a battleship -- Warships of the American steel navy -- Ordnance and torpedo data -- Enlisted rates and pay -- Daily shipboard routine -- A brief glossary of nautical expressions.Ships of the American steel navy : The ABCD ships -- Second-generation protected cruisers -- The debut of the armored ship -- Gunboats and peace cruisers -- Dynamite gun and ram -- The craze for speed -- Enter the armored cruiser -- Real bone and sinew -- The superposed-turret battleship -- Floating flatirons and galoshes -- Rise and decline of the torpedo boat -- The foreign war purchases -- The pleasure yacht is enlisted -- Auxiliaries of the the steel navy -- Prizes of war -- Continued battleship expansion -- Resurgence of the two-story turret -- Introducing the destroyer -- The armored cruiser squandron -- Gunboat diplomacy and banana wars -- The training squadrons -- The submarine torpedo boat -- The final flowering.

Subjects: Illustrated works.; United States. Navy;

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USS Lexington (CV-2) : from the 1920s to the Battle of Coral Sea in WWII / by Doyle, David,Author(DLC)n 2015016566;

When commissioned on December 14, 1927, USS Lexington and her sister ship, USS Saratoga, were the world's largest aircraft carriers. The Lexington-class carriers, as the ships were known, were the results of an effort akin to making lemonade from lemons. Both vessels were begun in 1920-21 as Lexington-class battle cruisers. Lexington, originally designated CC-1 (indicating battle cruiser), would have been a formidable warship armed with eight 16-inch guns in four turrets. The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 banned the constructions of such ships but permitted the conversion of such hulls into aircraft carriers. Accordingly, the Lady Lex, as she became known to her crew, was finished as a massive 888-foot-long aircraft carrier and retained the originally planned revolutionary turboelectric drive. From the outset, Lexington, initially carrying fabric-covered biplanes, was assigned to the Pacific Fleet. In the years leading up to WWII, both the ship and her aircraft were modernized. This profusely illustrated book, an expanded and updated version of the author's earlier work, puts the reader on the deck of Lexington through her construction, evolution, and ultimate May 8, 1942, sinking at the Battle of Coral Sea and finishes with the discovery of her wreck on March 4, 2018. Over 200 photos, numerous line drawings, and color renderings illustrate this new entry in the Legends of Warfare series.

Subjects: Lexington (Aircraft carrier : 1927-1942); Lexington (Aircraft carrier : 1927-1942); World War, 1939-1945;

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USS Monitor : a historic ship completes its final voyage / by Broadwater, John D.(CARDINAL)309927;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: first encounter -- "The Monitor is no more" -- Following new orders -- Facing the Cape -- Both ironclads in trouble -- Distress aboard Monitor -- "The Monitor is no more" -- Discovery -- Early attempts to locate Monitor -- Discovery and positive identification of Monitor -- The formal announcement and follow-up plans -- The R/V Alcoa seaprobe mapping cruise, April 1974 -- Story of an ironclad -- The slow evolution of naval technology -- Arms versus armor -- American ironclads capture the world's attention -- The ultimate test: the battle of Hampton Roads -- A sanctuary for America -- Protecting Monitor -- Investigating Monitor -- NOAA/Harbor Branch Foundation submersible expeditions -- NOAA reassesses its management strategy -- Institutional and private research expeditions, 1974-1979 -- Private dive expeditions,1990-1997 -- Next steps -- Charting a new course for the Monitor -- Escalating management issues -- Reassessment of Monitor management strategy -- Congressional mandate for a Monitor preservation plan -- Development of the comprehensive, long-range plan -- Summary of the final comprehensive, long-range plan -- Final recommendations -- Initial planning and implementation -- Implementing the recovery plan -- Help from a new source -- Propeller recovery expedition, 1998 -- Data collection expedition, 1999 -- Engineering the recovery of Monitor's machinery -- Hull stabilization and deployment of engine recovery structure, 2000 -- Steam engine recovery, 2001 -- Monitor completes its final voyage -- Gun turret recovery, 2002 -- 2002 Monitor expedition -- In Monitor's turret -- Entering a tomb -- Monitor completes its final voyage -- The turret's final journey -- Back in the turret -- Revelations from the turret -- The sanctuary's future -- Epilogue: telling Monitor's story."Recovering a lost ship that forever changed war at sea... On March 9, 1862, USS Monitor, prototype of a new class of armored warships, fought the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads, Virginia, only a day after Virginia had ravaged the Union fleet blockading the James River. In the world's first clash between iron-armored warships, Monitor and Virginia exchanged gunfire at close range for nearly four hours. The events at Hampton Roads changed the world's navies. After centuries of dominating battles at sea, wooden, sail-powered warships would be rendered obsolete. Iron, steam power, and heavy guns in rotating turrets were now the means to wage naval warfare. The harbinger of the change did not last long, however. Less than nine months later, the now-famous Monitor was under tow, heading south to Beaufort, North Carolina, when in heavy seas, the vessel sank, taking sixteen of its crew with it. Monitor was considered at the time to be a total and irretrievable loss; even the location of its final resting place became a mystery. Not until 1973 was the inverted hulk located, and in 1995, partial recovery of the wreck began under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in partnership with the US Navy. The decision to place Monitor in a protected zone-a national marine sanctuary-marked another historic first for the vessel. The story of this decision, the subsequent protection and management of the historic resource, and the raising of major hull components including the gun turret, add another layer of history to the Monitor's fascinating story. Lavish illustration (photographs, site drawings, and artifact sketches) complement this informative and highly readable account by John D. Broadwater, whose decades-long career as an archaeologist included participating in several early Monitor expeditions and eventually heading Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, during which time he planned and directed the major expeditions that resulted in recovery of many of Monitor's most significant objects. Naval warfare buffs, amateurs and professionals involved in maritime archaeology, and Civil War aficionados will be intrigued and informed by USS MONITOR: A HISTORIC SHIP COMPLETES ITS FINAL VOYAGE."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad); Shipwrecks; Underwater archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology);

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Iron dawn : the Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War sea battle that changed history / by Snow, Richard,1947-author.(CARDINAL)186376;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-375) and index.Terrible Havoc: March, 1862 -- Augury -- Disgrace -- The First Necessity -- Old Father Neptune -- The Once and Future Merrimack -- Guns -- The Power of Alliteration -- The Entrepreneur -- The Inventor -- The Peacemaker -- Perfect Protection -- Something in It -- No Battle, No Money -- The Tardy Patriot -- Trial Run -- The Prisoner Takes Command -- Paymaster Keeler Comes East -- Like a duck -- A Visit to Lincoln -- March 8: Iron Against Wood -- Frightful News -- The Short, Bad Voyage -- March 9: Iron Against Iron -- Victors -- Echoes -- Hawthorne Visits the Future -- Tattnall's Turn -- Lincoln in the Field -- Not the Way to Richmond -- Doldrums -- Hatteras -- Landfall.From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, the thrilling story of the naval battle that not only changed the course of the Civil War but the future of all sea power. No single sea battle has triggered more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built a sloped iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project when it was already well along, and, in desperation, secretly commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor, a revolutionary iron warship--at the time, the single most complicated machine ever made. Abraham Lincoln himself was closely involved with the ship's design. Rushed through to completion in just one hundred days, it mounted two lethal guns housed in a shot-proof revolving turret. The new warship hurried south from Brooklyn (and nearly sank twice on the voyage), only to find the Merrimack had smokily destroyed half the Union fleet that morning and would be back to finish the job the next day. When she returned, the Monitor was there. She fought the Merrimack to a thunderous, blazing standstill and saved the Union cause. As soon as word of the clamorous battle spread, Great Britain--the foremost sea power of the day--ceased construction of all wooden warships. A thousand-year-old tradition ended, and the path to the naval future opened.--From dust jacket.

Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad); Merrimack (Frigate); Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.; Ships, Iron and steel;

Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 15

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Clayton D. Taylor: United States Naval Air Force (transcript) [kit] / by Taylor, Clayton D.; Taylor, Clayton D.;

Editing assistant, Robert Davie.Interviewer, Bryan T. Smithey

Subjects: Military;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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