Word: turreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed armored ship, invented by Captain John Ericsson, with a low freeboard and unique revolving gun-turret, used in the Civil War, by the Union to checkmate the ironclad Southern Merrimac...
...eastern end was given over to chambers within which small studies, about six feet square, were partitioned off. Each student had a study of his own, but the chambers were common. Between the chambers and the kitchen was the hall, entrance to which was through a projecting turret in the front of the building. This turret also contained a staircase which led to the library and studies on the second floor...
...fuel could be carried and the Cyclops flown to Europe. Five machine guns are carried: one out on each lower wing, clear of the propeller and thus not necessarily synchronized with it, to be operated from the cockpit, aiming straight ahead; one in a disappearing turret which drops down from the fuselage aft of the pilot, for defense below; two firing as one in another turret rising above the fuselage still further aft, for defense upwards...
...caught on a little island off Manila Bay now named Lamonja (the nun) ; the friar on an islet now called El Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns, is known as "the stationary battleship." But experts consider Corregidor to be as impregnable as Gallipoli or Gibraltar ; its heavy armaments have longer range than the guns of any existent warship. **The Bacon Bill provides for a separate government for the southern islands (where the Moros live...
Ericsson successfully undertook to build an ironclad war vessel in 90 days to cope with the dreaded ironclad Merrimac with which the Confederates hoped to destroy the shipping of the North. In constructing the Monitor, Captain Ericsson invented the turret and its mechanism, and more than 40 patentable ideas which made this armored vessel the precursor of the modern battleship?and all these inventions he presented to the Government for its use without charge. He made for use in this man-of-war the first forged projectile, which he had demonstrated at the proving grounds would penetrate the armor...