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Dual-turreted Union ironclad USS Onondaga, US Civil War, 1863 (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Some of the early reporters who got to take a ride along on low-draft Monitors like that wrote that it felt surreal to see water dip over the deck and not sink the ship.

Of course, that's also why they couldn't be used outside of rivers and calm coastal waters.