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Title: Heresies of sea power
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jane, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas), 1865-1916
Subjects: Sea-power Naval history War
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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usually occurs to two or three different people about the same time. Not, however, that the turret, except qua turret, was an absolutely novel notion, because the swivel gun and the pivot gun were existing ideas; and so long ago as the sixteenth century something of the nature of a turret had been proposed. Coles and Ericsson were, however, the first to build turret ships. The American Civil War gave Ericsson the benefit of a battle test and the resulting advertisement. The Monitor quickly developed into the double turret ship with four heavy guns and there—so far as America was concerned—progress ceased. Improvements in detail were effected, but no further advance was made in the direction of evolution of the original idea. The British at the time of the Monitor were building broadside ironclads armed with medium guns of only 12 1/2 tons, but large numbers of these guns in each ship. At the same time, however, there was evolved a vessel which in many ways was nearly forty years ahead of her time.
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IMAGE: Royal Sovereign - Vandervelde EVOLUTION OF THE BATTLESHIP 313 This was the Royal Sovereign completed in 1864, an old three decker turned into a turret ship. Being a comparatively small and experimental vessel she only carried guns of 12 1/2 tons, but none the less one general idea embodied in her was not touched again till the Dreadnought was designed in 1904-05. The Royal Sovereign had no less than four turrets, all in the centre line. The foremost turret carried two

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