NAVY. f.XriKI) STATES. 



NEALE, JOHN M. 



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battlo. 'llic riisiiultu'ij during the Buino time, 



A itli l:ittlo, were 2,070. 

 .ifor "Mijiiituimirtoh" in IHT trip 

 across the Atlantic Ocean, steamed from St. 



Johns, Newfoundland, to Quocn.stown, Ireland. 

 The following is an extract from a journal of 

 her passage: 



Draught of water : Forward, 15 feet 4 inches; Alt, 15 feet 2 inches ; Forward and oft, 2 feet 8 inches ; Amid., 2 feet. 



Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Fox, in his water, and the ertreme lurch, observed when lying 

 orti.-ial report of her passage, says : broadside to a heavy sea and moderate gale was 7' 



to windward and 4 to leeward, mean 5j% while the 

 average roll at the same time of the Augusta, a re- 

 markably steady ship, was 18*, and the Ashuelot 25", 

 both vessels being steadied by sail. 



A vessel which attacks a monitor in a seaway, must 

 approach very close, to have any chance of hitting 

 such a low bull, and even then the monitor is half 

 the time covered up by three or four* feet of water, 

 protecting herself and disturbing her opponent's fire. 



From these facts, not unknown to monitor men, 

 and the experience we have derived from the use of 

 such vessels during the war, we may safely conclude 

 that the monitor type of iron-clads is superior to the 

 broadside, not only for fighting purposes at sea, but 

 also for cruising. A properly constructed monitor 

 possessing all the requirements of a cruiser, ought 

 to have but one turret, armed with not less than 20- 

 inch guns, two independent propellers, the usual 

 proportion of sail, and constructed of iron. 



Tlie comforts of this monitor to the officers and 

 men are superior to those of any other class of vessels 

 in the Navy. 



On December 16th, the frigate Ironsides, well 

 known for her services in Charleston harbor 

 during the -war, was entirely destroyed by fire 

 at League Island, in the Delaware River. 



Perhaps it may not be out of place to mention 

 here that a race of private yachts, from New 

 York to the Isle of Wight, was contested for a 

 stake of $90,000. The yachts Henrietta, Fleet- 

 wing, and Vesta, sailed from New York at 1 

 p. M., on December 1 1th. The Henrietta entered 

 the harbor of Cowes about noon, December 

 2."itli, having made the passage in thirteen days, 

 twenty- two hours and forty-six minutes. The 

 FKvtwing came in a few hours later, and the 

 Vesta on the next morning. 



NEALE, JOHN MASOX, D. D., a distinguished 

 Anglican clergyman, poet, hyrnnologist, lin- 

 guist, and author, born in London, January 24 



The facts with regard to the behavior of this ves- 

 sel in a moderate gale of wind and heavy sea, when 

 a frigate would find it impossible to use her battery, 

 are as follows : Head to the sea^ she takes over about 

 four feet of solid water, which is broken as it sweeps 

 long the deck, and after reaching the turret it is too 

 much spent to prevent firing the 15-inch guns direct- 

 ly ahead. Broadside to the sea, either moving along 

 or stopped, her lee guns can always be worked with- 

 out difficulty, the water which passes across the deck, 

 from windward, being divided by the turrets, and 

 her extreme roll so moderate as not to press her lee 

 guns near the water. Lying in the same position, 

 (lie 15-inch guns can be fired directly astern without 

 interference from water, and, when stern to the sea, 

 the water which comes on board is broken up in the 

 same manner as when going head to it. In the 

 trough of the sea her ports will be liable to be flooded, 

 if required to use her g^uns to windward. This, there- 

 fore, would be the position selected by an antagonist 

 who designed to fight a monitor in a seaway. An 

 ordinary vessel, high out of water and lying in the 

 trough of the sea broadside to, is attacked by a wave 

 which climbs up the side, heels her to leeward, and 



.4 underneath assists in throwing her back to 

 windward, when another wave is met and the heavy 

 lee lurch repeated. A wave advancing upon a mon- 

 itor, in a similar position, finds no side above the 

 water to act against; it therefore climbs aboard with- 

 out difficulty, heels the vessel a few degrees to wind- 

 ward, and passes quickly to leeward, underneath. 

 The water which has got on board, having no support 



h it on, and an inclined deck to ascend, becomes 

 broken water; a small portion going across the deck 

 and off to leeward, but the largest part tumbling back 

 to windward, overboard, without sending against the 

 turret anything like the Quantity which first got on 

 deck. The turret guns tnus occupy a central posi- 

 tion, wluMi, notwithstanding the lowness of the ves- 

 sel's hull, they are more easily and safely handled in 

 a seaway, than guns of the same height above the 

 water in a broadside vessel. The axis of the bore 

 jf the 15-inch guns of this vessel is CJ feet above the 



