Unsere Marine in der Zeit des Krieges (1861-1898). s ist nicht bekannt, ob Sie asuccess sein würde. Nach einer weiteren Woche das Schiff ging, wie faras Sandy Hook aus eigener Kraft. Dann cameorders ihr Süden zu eilig, und am Donnerstag, den 6. März, wie bereits gesagt wurde, begann sie auf Ihrem gefährlichen Jour-Ney. Der Monitor wurde unter dem Kommando von Lieuten-ant John nordworden, der einige bemerkenswerte workat Pensacola früher im Krieg getan hatte und im gewesen - in Montgomery, Ala prisoned, weil es. Hewas wirklich krank, wenn er sich freiwillig und wurde selectedto Befehl den Monitor. Leutnant S. DanaGreene freiwillig mit ihm als Executive zu gehen

• Bildanbieter: The Reading Room / Alamy Stock Foto
• Bild-ID: 2AJJTH9
• Dateigröße: 7,1 MB (285,2 KB Komprimierter Download)
• Freigaben (Releases): Model - nein | Eigentum - nein
• Format: 1565 x 1596 px | 26,5 x 27 cm | 10,4 x 10,6 inches | 150dpi

Weitere Informationen

Dieses Bild ist ein gemeinfreies Bild. Dies bedeutet, dass entweder das Urheberrecht dafür abgelaufen ist oder der Inhaber des Bildes auf sein Urheberrecht verzichtet hat. Alamy berechnet Ihnen eine Gebühr für den Zugriff auf die hochauflösende Kopie des Bildes.

Dieses Bild kann kleinere Mängel aufweisen, da es sich um ein historisches Bild oder ein Reportagebild handel

Our navy in time of war (1861-1898) . s not known whether she would be asuccess. After another week the vessel went as faras Sandy Hook under her own steam. Then cameorders to hurry her South, and on Thursday, March6th, as has been told, she started on her perilous jour-ney. The Monitor was under command of Lieuten-ant John Worden, who had done some notable workat Pensacola earlier in the war, and had been im-prisoned at Montgomery, Ala., because of it. Hewas really sick when he volunteered and was selectedto command the Monitor. Lieutenant S. DanaGreene volunteered to go with him as executiveofficer. Assistant-Engineer Isaac Newton w^as at thehead of the four engineers, and Chief-Engineer A. C.Stimers was sent along to watch the machinery and tomake a report about it. The crew consisted of fifty-eight men. THE FAMOUS MONITOR. 13 Meanwhile the Southern men at Norfolk were hur-rying up the Merrimac. When she started out from^Norfolk on the morning of March 8, 1862, the work-men were still busy on her, and some of them were. put ashore after the vessel had got in motion. She wasunder the command of Captain Franklin Buchanan, formerly of the United States navy, and a very braveman. She had a green crew on her, and had never 14 OUR NAVY IN TIME OF WAR. stGaincd a mile after being fixed over, and few ofthe officers had ever met one another. She could goonly about four knots an hour, and when she starteddown the river from Norfolk to Hampton Roads onthat Saturday morning to destroy the Northern fleet, there was very little fear on those ships that anythingserious Avould happen. At anchor in Hampton Roadsnear each other and off Newport News Avere the frig-ate Congress, which carried fifty guns, and the sloopof war Cumberland, carrying twenty-four guns, which the Pawnee had saved from the Norfolk NavyYard nearly a year before. Farther down Ham})tonRoads, toward Fort Monroe on the Chesapeake Bay, were the old frigate St. Lawrence and the two mod-ern steam frigates, Roanoke and M

Stockbilder mithilfe von Tags suchen

• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1890
• booksubjectunitedstatesnavy
• buhr