Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER XXXIII
The Development of the American Navy
The Origin of the American Navy--Sights on Guns and What They Did--Opening Japan--Port Royal--Passing the Forts--The "Monitor" and "Merrimac"--In Mobile Bay--The "Kearsarge" and the "Alabama"--Naval Architecture Revolutionized--The Samoan Hurricane--Building a New Navy--Great Ships of the Spanish American War--The Modern Floating Iron Fortresses--New "Alabama" and "Kearsarge" 482