Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 610
. i876.] TURRET-SIII PS AND TORPEDOES. 579 You can make a good model of her by taking alittle oval fig-box, painting it black, and sinking itin a basin until the top of the lid is nearly levelwith the water. Then place a small pill-box in thecenter of the deck, and you will have a capital sharp… … THE GLATT miniature turret ; but if the pill-box has unpleasantassociations, an) other small round box will answeryour purpose equally well. The smoke-stack maybe represented by a lucifer match inserted in thedeck near the stern. Soon after the success of the Monitor, severalother turret-ships were…
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