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Friday 8 December 2017

Gun turrets of the American monitor USS Miantonomoh fitted out with fans according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1892-1893 no. 3

An item referred to the magazine Nature reporting that the two main gun turrets of the American turret ship Miantonomoh were fitted out with electrically powered fans manufactured by Crocker Wheeler Company for exhausting the gases of gunpowder.(1)

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1. Building ordered on 23 June 1874, laid down by John Roach&Son, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA in 1874, launched on 5 December 1876, commissioned on 6 October 1882 and sold to be broken up on 26 January 1922. Main armament consisted of 2x1-25cm/10” 31cal breech loading rifles.