Talk:USS Monitor
On Template:March 9 selected anniversaries
What does "standardizing image link" mean? -- Zoe
- Using the handy [[Image:Filename]] syntax instead of the old ponderous tricky and difficult-to-track http://www.wikipedia.com/upload/filename. --Brion
- Thanks. -- Zoe
..cannon fire (torpedoes were not a worry for another 50 years
I believe that in this time frame the term torpedo referred to what we now call a mine - also at least one US ironclad, the USS Cairo, was sunk by a torpedo.
So the phrase seems to be a bit ambiguous? -- Bob frasier
- You are absolutely right, and I think the entire parenthetical phrase should be deleted. However, I have simply disambiguated it. --the Epopt 15:57, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Should perhaps the other ships in the Monitor class be mentioned? If I remember correctly the last of the monitors was Sölve. The article also fails to mention the problems with water flooding the ship in high sea. // Liftarn
Anyone have a better image of the Monitor we can use? The current one makes it look like the Monitor had masts, which it most certainly didn't. -- Carnildo 07:19, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- There are lots of images here. "To the best of our knowledge, all Online Library pictures are in the public domain and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose without requesting permission." [1] — Cam 01:28, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks. I've selected what I feel is a better image. --Carnildo 06:49, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
irritation
I'm intrigued that the USS Monitor was "Designed by the brilliant but easily irritated Swedish-American engineer John Ericsson". I'd really like to know why he was so easily irritated, and what people did that really ticked him off. What a hoot! Is this a Monty Python sketch?
mcgiffert