Pl. 69
Plate 69 of 87 · Class VIII, Ships & submarines
Monitor
A small warship that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns. Revived in the early 20th century as a shallow-draft bombardment ship, monitors gave close support to troops ashore, and the Royal Navy developed several classes of them in the First World War.
Mentioned in
- Chapter II Thirty-Seven Days to War §7 War Declared, Telegrams Crossed, 28–30 July
- Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings Overview§3 Raiders and Hunters: Spee, Emden and Königsberg§7 The Mediterranean, Black Sea and Baltic
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §3 Lettow-Vorbeck's Guerrilla War in East Africa