As the first of its kind ever to be installed on a ship, the Monitor’s 115-ton revolving gun turret represented a major technological advancement that changed the course of naval architecture ...

And again in 1910, on page 503 of Jane's “Fighting Ships,” Captain William Hovgaard strts: "The ideal arrangement of the heavy gun-turrets seems to be the American, frst adopted in the ...

The Battleship Iowa, a tourist attraction in the Port of Los Angeles since 2012, is among the more recent additions to the ...

“Every turret on a ship, you know, from gun battleships all the way through now with autonomous lidar you see on modern ships, all that comes from the turret that’s sitting in that tank behind me.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The tank housing the historic USS Monitor's gun turret was drained for the first time in years while undergoing conservation efforts at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in ...