Rhea Cole
Major
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2019
- Location
- Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Interior of the turret of USS Passaic.
The difference in size between the 11" & 15" Dalghren smoothbores is obvious. not obvious is why one of each in the turret?
Monitors were armed with one 11" & one 15" Dahlgren cannons. What was the point of that? Late in the war, the 11" was replaced with an 8" rifle, which makes some sense. Anyways, it seems illogical to complicate the magazine storage & logistic support with two caliber of smoothbore cannon. Both guns could only be elevated to 5 degrees. I know of no advantage of one gun over the other or what the point of the combination was.
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