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	USS Monitor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862 during the American Civil War, in which Monitor fought the ironclad CSS Virginia of the Confederate States Navy.
		USS Monitor became the prototype for the monitor warship type.
		Monitor in the news – "Monitor turret raised from ocean"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Monitor (871 words)

	Monitor article - Monitor computer display speaker concurrent programming critical sections - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		A monitor warship type of ship based on the USS Monitor and built by several navies for coastal defence in the 1860s and 1870s.
		A river monitor, the strongest type of river warships.
		Monitor lizards are a family of large tropical lizards (Varanidae).
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Monitor (390 words)

	Monitor (warship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Monitor became the prototype of a form of ship built by several navies for coastal defence in the 1860s and 1870s and known as a monitor.
		The monitor as a class of warship reappeared in a rather different form during the First World War as a flat bottomed sea-going barge equipped with battleship-sized guns and intended solely for bombardment of the enemy coast.
		One example of this type of monitor is the Royal Navy Monitor M33.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monitor_warship_type (619 words)

	Civil War Monitors
		The monitor was dubbed by an observing person "a cheesebox on a raft" and that tells well their appearance.
		Monitor arrived at Hampton Roads on 9 March, and was immediately sent into action against the Confederate ironclad Virginia, which had sunk two US Navy ships the previous day.
		Monitor’s pumps and hand pumps were inadequate to keep her from sinking during stormy weather.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/monitors-1.htm (4654 words)

	AllRefer.com - monitor, type of warship (Naval And Nautical Affairs) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		monitor, type of turreted warship (no longer used) carrying heavy guns, having little draft, and lying low in the water.
		Monitors were so called from the first of the class, the Monitor, built for the Union navy in the U.S. Civil War by John Ericsson.
		Launched in Jan., 1862, the Monitor was 179 ft (55 m) long, of 41.5-ft (13-m) beam, and weighed 1,200 tons.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/montrshp.html (301 words)

	USS Monitor
		She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862 during the American Civil War, in which ''Monitor'' fought the ironclad CSS Virginia''Virginia'' of the Confederate States Navy/.
		USS MonitorUSS ''Monitor'' became the prototype for the monitor warship type.
		While the design of the USS ''Monitor'' was well-suited for river combat, her low free board and heavy turret made her highly unseaworthy in rough waters.
	www.infothis.com /find/USS_Monitor (1100 words)

	Monitor Thor
		The monitor stranded on the SW of Hoftø outside Verdens Ende in Vestfold county during a storm 7.
		There is only two diveable wrecks of monitors in the hole world, where one of them is the USS Monitor on sixty meters depth, and the monitor Thor, which lies on a more comfortable depth og eight to fourteen meters.
		Currently, Monitor's anchor, red lantern, oarlocks, and various other artifacts are on display as part of The Mariners' permanent exhibition Defending the Seas, which recounts the history of the U.S. Navy.
	www.skovheim.org /located/vestfold/thor/thor.htm (1338 words)

	BATTLE OF HAMPTON ROADS FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The Battle of Hampton Roads, often called "'''the Battle of the ''Monitor'' and the ''Merrimac'''''", was a naval_battle of the American_Civil_War, famous for being the first fight between two powered iron-covered warships, or "ironclads", the CSS ''Virginia'' and the USS ''Monitor''.
		The Union Navy burned the USS ''Merrimack'' during the evacuation of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia in 1861, she was rebuilt at the Gosport_Shipyard at Portsmouth, in the first dry_dock in America, with ironclad plating and a reduced superstructure from her old burned out hull, and was commissioned as CSS ''Virginia'' on February_17, 1862.
		After resting undetected on the ocean floor for 111 years, the wreck of ''Monitor'' was located by a team of scientists in 1973.
	www.dontpayyourtaxes.com /Battle_of_Hampton_Roads (2575 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: Preserving the USS Monitor
		The first American warship with no masts and sails, the vessel was powered by steam alone.
		The Monitor was the first U.S. Navy warship to house all officers and crewmen in the same section of the ship.
		Traditional warships of the day had tomaneuver until their sides faced the enemy, because their guns could not be adjusted sideways by more than a few degrees.
	oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /explorations/islands01/islands01.htmlhttp://oceanex/explorations/monitor01/tour/tour.html (912 words)

	USS Wyoming - The Last Monitor
		When the MONITOR met the CSS VIRGINIA off Hampton Roads in the first duel between ironclads, they demonstrated that all of the worlds navies with their lines of wooden walls were helpless.
		Although the USS MONITOR was obsolete within a short time, (and would sink in a gale while under tow off Cape Hatteras), the US Navy continued to build improved monitor types of single, double, and even triple turret design.
		New designs were fortnulated for coastal defense, the monitor type being promoted as the cheapest and most effective solution to the problem.
	smmlonline.com /articles/wyoming/wyoming.html (899 words)

	Australian Colonial navies, before Federation (2)
		The need to protect Sydney from Russian warships based at Vladivostock, coupled with the continuing Crimean War in Europe, convinced the public of New South Wales that a small warship was required for the defence of Sydney Harbour.
		With various other ex-colonial warships she was integrated into the RAN in 1911 and was not paid off until June, 1924, an impressive 40 years of service.
		The largest of the warships, named Victoria, was described as a B1 type gunboat, Albert the smaller gunboat, a type D. Both ships were rigged for sailing and in fact employed sails during their delivery voyages.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/colonial-navy2.htm (3929 words)

	A PRICELESS RELIC RAISE THE MONITOR
		Caretakers of the ironclad Monitor, whose remains are rapidly deteriorating in 230 feet of water off the North Carolina coast, made a strong plea before a congressional subcommittee last week to raise what remains of the Civil War ship before it is lost forever.
		The Monitor was a ship of unique design, and it played a storied role in the War Between the States and the history of Hampton Roads.
		But the Monitor was born and bred as a fighting machine of the (then-divided) United States Navy, and Norfolk remains that Navy's greatest port.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp971112/11120006.htm (517 words)

	Pressure Monitor -- Recommendations and Resources
		MONITOR comienza desde entonces con la composición de temas inéditos y como punto de partida promocional, realizan un concierto tributo a Depeche Mode en el Bar Santé, de Guayaquil, banda que los influenció notablemente.
		MONITOR mantiene la filosofía de que la música electrónica, en todos sus subgéneros, es la música del futuro y como tal, hay que enriquecerla cada vez más con la tecnología que este siglo nos trae...
		She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862 during the American Civil War, in which ''Monitor'' fought the ironclad ''Virginia'' of the Confederate States Navy.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/120/pressure-monitor.html (875 words)

	USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL: Submerged Cultural Resources Study (Chapter 6)
		The Peruvian monitor HUASCAR, captured by Chile in the War of the Pacific in 1879, is now a memorial after years of use by the Chilean Navy.
		The MONITOR was the first shipwreck designated a National Historic Landmark in the United States, the ARIZONA was the second.
		Admiral Kidd noted that the battleship is the only warship lost during World War II whose wreckage still remained in sight when the war was over; all the others went down in deep water and "their bones rest in unknown lands beneath the sea" (Friedman et al.
	www.nps.gov /usar/scrs/scrs6a.htm (1241 words)

	monitor on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		type of turreted warship (no longer used) carrying heavy guns, having little draft, and lying low in the water.
		Flat Panel Monitor This diagram of a typical flat panel monitor shows where LVDS is used as the last interface t.
		TP Monitors The TP monitor (transaction monitor) was perhaps the first product to be called middleware.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m1/montrshp.asp (599 words)

	John Ericsson Online Research :: Information about John Ericsson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		At this moment, Ericsson presented drawings of the USS Monitor a totally unique and novel design of armoured ships, which after much controversy was eventually built and finished on March 6, 1862.
		At this moment the Southern ironclad CSS Virginia was harvesting victories against the Northern fleet until the Monitor appeared.
		After this numerous Monitor warship type were built, and are believed to have considerably influenced the victory of the Northern states.
	www.in-northcarolina.com /search/John_Ericsson.html (1331 words)

	Monitorhistory
		The Style L and M Monitor Vaneless windmills are very easily identified from their distinctively shaped counterweights, rocker arm ironwork, and two large coiled governor springs at the wheel hub.
		The Monitor Self Oiling was an outgrowth of the firm's experience in producing the open back geared Monitor Steel mills, and the wheels and vanes on the new mills were made interchangeable with those on the older mills of the same size.
		The Monitor Self Oiling mill is a quite common example of the "first generation" of self lubricating steel windmills, and it may be observed in most areas of North America and in many places more distant.
	www.spearman.org /Monitorhistory.html (2255 words)

	monitor - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
		An articulated device holding a rotating nozzle with which a jet of water is regulated, used in mining and firefighting.
		A heavily ironclad warship of the 19th century with a low, flat deck and one or more gun turrets.
		monitor the bear population of a national park; monitored the political views of the people.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/m/m0387500.html (249 words)

	Monitor - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Monitor may have one of the following meanings: * A computer display * A concurrent programming language construct which encapsulates variables, access procedures and initialisation code within an abstract data type.
		Monitors in this sense were invented by C. Hoare.
		* A monitor warship type of ship based on the USS Monitor and built by several navies for coastal defence in the 1860s and 1870s.
	www.questionz.net /Computer/Monitor.html (380 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: Preserving the USS Monitor
		The Monitor was successful in protecting the stranded Minnesota, while the Virginia prevented the Monitor from advancing up the James River toward Richmond, the Confederate capital.
		Although the Monitor remained in the Hampton Roads area for most of the spring and summer of 1862, the two vessels never again met in battle.
		The Monitor was lost at sea less than a year after her launch.
	oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /explorations/monitor01/history/history.html (870 words)

	article_fuller_ericsson_dec03.htm
		As a result, there was always a high probability that the monitors might not prove themselves entirely useful; might not simultaneously and continually satisfy every facet of shifting strategic priorities.
		Recurring arguments that “Monitor Mania” as a result of the events of March 8-9, 1862 somehow ‘blinded’ Assistant Secretary Fox and the Navy Department as a whole neglect this fact.
		Secondly, to Hale’s inquiry of the purpose of the (monitor) ironclad gunboats proposed by the Navy, Welles stated they were “to reduce all the fortified sea ports of the enemy and open their harbors to the Union Army.” Examined closely, this was a significant caveat not mentioned by Ericsson.
	www.ijnhonline.org /volume2_number3_Dec03/article_fuller_ericsson_dec03.htm (5159 words)

	USS Weehawken (1862) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The first USS Weehawken was a single-turreted monitor warship type in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
		The Passaic class monitor Weehawken was an improved and enlarged version of USS Monitor.
		Despite additional bombardments on 18 and 24 July, the monitors failed to silence the fort, leaving General Gillmores troops pinned down on the beach caught between a murderous hail of cross fire.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Union-Navy-ships/USS-Weehawken-(1862).html (795 words)

	BHARAT RAKSHAK MONITOR: Volume 4(3)
		The sinking of the INS Khukri which was the only warship ever lost by the Indian Navy continues to haunt the minds of naval war planners even today.
		When they were identified as warships from their sonar transmissions, the submarine began pursuit.
		The reason for this was the attachment of a special device by the Khukri's electrical officer, Lt. V.K Jain, to the Type 14's 170/174 sonar to slightly increase it's detection range.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /MONITOR/ISSUE4-3/harry.html (1798 words)

	Civil War Warship Innovation
		The last, and largest, of the initial group of three "salt-water" armored warships begun in 1861 in response to meet the needs of the Civil War, she was commissioned in August 1862.
		Seized at New Orleans in January 1862, she was converted to a warship by the State of Louisiana and attached to the Confederacy's Mississippi River Defense Fleet.
		As a gunboat, renamed for the State's Governor, her stem was reinforced for ramming by two strips of flat railroad iron at the waterline, strapped and bolted in place, with pine lumber and cotton-bale barricades to protect her boilers.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/civil-war1.htm (4230 words)

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		The Royal Navy looked at the monitor and built a haphazard assortment of a few vessels but quickly realized that it was no substitute for a sea going warship.
		Century, the monitor type of warship was a poor man’s battleship.
		Since the armament of a major warship took the longest time to build, the purchase of the four twin 14-Inch turrets, allowed the Admiralty to quickly build the first British monitors.
	www.steelnavy.com /CombrigAbercrombie.htm (2891 words)

	Ericsson's Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, John Ericsson and his ironclad warship are memorialized in the name of P.S. 126 on Leonard Street, in the sculpture of a burly sailor hauling on a line inside McGoldrick Park, which faces Monitor Street.
		The Monitor was launched from a Brooklyn pier in late January, before a crowd of curious New Yorkers who had been advised by the best authorities that the new-fangled iron ship would flip over and sink straight to the bottom of the East River.
		The Monitor foundered in a storm off Cape Hatteras late in 1862, but she had a long line of descendants: in the United States alone sixty-six Monitor-type vessels were built, the last of which remained in service until 1925.
	www.forgottendelights.com /Press/Monitor.htm (752 words)

	Bayside Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The Union Navy was hunting down the last of the Confederate raiders around the world, and a new type of warship, the turreted "monitor" invented by New York's John Ericsson, has proved more than a match for the Confederate ironclads.
		It was found that this type of projectile could penetrate the exposed walls of a conventional masonry fortress in a short time.
		Defenses of this type were built at Willets Point on the bluff behind the granite fort to supplement its reduced armament.
	www.baysidehistorical.org /publications/fort-02.htm (4859 words)

	A-H Danube Flotilla
		The type of a low deck armored fighting vessel with one or more guns in turrets, proved itself ill-suited for sailing the high seas.
		The Navy budget of 1914/15 provided for two more monitors, No IX and No X that were built within one year at the Linz shipyard and commissioned as Sava and Bosna [ex -Temes (II)] in the fall of 1915.
		Monitor Division from Cernavoda to Breila, due to hitting a mine, the Danube Flotilla's Chief of Staff, Korvettenkapitän (Cdr.) von Förster was killed.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/danube.htm (2563 words)

	Silt-filled turret of Civil War warship USS Monitor raised from Atlantic amid cheers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The Monitor, a Union ship, fought to a draw with the much larger Confederate ship CSS Virginia, an ironclad formerly named the Merrimack.
		Before the turret was lifted, a heavy cable-lifting harness was lowered to the wreckage and connected to eight points on a custom-made steel claw attached to the turret.
		It is believed to be that of one of the 16 Monitor sailors who died when the ship sank in a storm on Dec. 31, 1862, and landed upside down.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/06/national0402EDT0457.DTL&type=printable (575 words)

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