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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 128 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 37 1 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 29 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 20 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 11 7 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 10 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 9 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 3 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
ters flew promiscuously in all directions in the neighborhood inside. The ram was armed with two 7 and one 8 inch rifled guns of the Brooke pattern, fore and aft, and with four of the same 6-inch guns in her broadsides. The attack by Lieutenant W. B. Cushing upon the Confederate ram Albemarle, in the Roanoke River, was made October 28, 1864. With a tug rigged with a torpedo spar, he ran the gantlet of the batteries and destroyed the ram, his own vessel being sunk in the encounter. The gallant commander and one seaman escaped. Lieutenant Cushing died December 24, 1874, aged 32. Ram-block. （Nautical.) A block without sheaves for the lanyards of the shrouds. See dead-eye. Ramed. （Shipbuilding.) Said of a ship on the stocks when the frames, stem, and stern-post are up and adjusted. Ram-head. （Nautical.) An old name for a halyard-block. Ram-line. （Nautical.) A line used in striking a straight middle line on a spar, being secured at one end and haule
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
do, Pinta (side view). Figs. 6555, 6556, show it as rigged on the Pinta. The Wood and Lay spar torpedo was used in the United States Navy, notably by Lieutenant Cushing in destroying the Confederate ram Albemarle at Plymouth, N. C., in 1864. It was attached to a spar by means of the lug b: run beneath the enemy's vessel; drom the shore, but continued her course straight for the ram. Striking the logs, they were driven inward some feet. The torpedo-boom was then lowered, says Lieutenant Cushing, and, by a vigorous pull, I succeeded in driving the torpedo under the overhang, and exploding it at the same time the Albemarle's gun was fired. A shot sehrough my boat, and a dense mass of water rushed in from the torpedo, filling the launch and completely disabling her. The Albemarle sunk at her moorings. Lieutenant Cushing and one of his crew escaped by swimming. Porter torpedo-boat. Just before the close of the war an attack was made, in the James River, on the merchan