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Eighteen Inches from Doom: How the USS Monitor Defied the Sea
Eighteen Inches from Doom: How the USS Monitor Defied the Sea
Eighteen inches separated the deck of the USS Monitor from the Atlantic - a revolutionary iron warship with a 179-foot hull, a 20-foot revolving turret, and just 18 inches of freeboard that crossed the ocean in 1862; could such a machine survive its first real test? What pushed the Navy to build a ship designed in 101 days and sailed by 49 men into history?
In this episode, we follow the Monitor from keel-laying to Hampton Roads and trace the decisions, people, and risks that brought iron to sea, closing on the moment when it met…
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