kevin klein
Private
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2019
What where the monitors named after? Most have unusual names for ships, I did a little research and found some refer to native tribes, towns or land marks. This has made me curious for some time.
I have a theory that the Indians really used simple names like Smithville or Trout Creek and made up things like Wissanomahannock to mess with the white folks
You should visit Wisconsin.A drive through the Deep South will convince you of the difficulty of saying Native American town names, I live here and still can't pronounce them correctly. And as for the Monitor names, the Union built so many that I guess it was hard to find names for them all. Maybe they should have done like they did for the rivercraft and just given them numbers.
Those I can understand.Monitor, Dictator and Puritan were named by Ericsson, as statements of intent.
I thought Monitor was in terms of "monitoring" Britain, not the Rebels."Dictator" or "Monitor" also had the connotation of bringing the rebels back in line. Sounds better than setting the Adamankawonkus on them