Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-05
A Monitor Across the Ocean.

The successful trip Of the monitor
Mlantonomoh across the Atlantic is de-
servedly attracting much attention as a
great naval triumph, she being the first
vessel of the kind that has ever crossed
the ocean, although the MOnadnock has
made an equally perilous and much
longer voyage around Cape Horn to San
francisco. Being the first monitor to
visit European waters, she will of course
attract great attention wherever she
goes, correspondent of the PrOvi-
dence Journal, who was with the fleet
that accompanied her, furnishes some
interesting particulars respecting the
MiantonOmOh and her performances.
Her appearance at st. Johns, N. F.. Gre
ated great excitement, and the signal
man, dumb with Amusement, left his
station on the hill, and reported "a sink
ing steamer coming in" No storm was
encountered Oh the passage to Queens
town, but high seas prevailed at times.
The MiantOnOmoh, steaming six to sew
en- and half knOts-her maximum speed
is much greater than this-with mod
crate consumption of coal, seemed to be
not whit behind other sea-going YES
sells. Upon the great waves which now
and then almost hid the iron clad. she
would rise gracefully and buyantly, and
then fall away with the receding swell,
sensitive as yacht, just hardly rolling
from side to side, while the waters which
it seemed at times must engulph her,
were hardly able to skim across her deck.
On her arrival at Queenstown the writer
says, under date of 10th:
GAS we passed the bluff head of Kin
sale, the light-keeper dipped the British
ensign, which he had hoisted on the
flag staff near blythe first flag in Eu-
rope that saluted an American monitor
iron-clat. We steamed handsomely in
line into the harbor, between the two
great headlands, crowned with English
Notifications, from which we were again
saluted by the British flag. The Mian-
tonomoh steamed in rapidly and so fine
ly that it was no wonder the people were
astonished and pleased with her move
ments.
We passed close under the bow of the
English ironclad frigate Achilles, whose
officers looked down upon the strange
iron vessel, unable, evidently, to compre-
bend her character. We steamed up
abreast OF the city, and came to an an
Choir. The British flag was hoisted at
the fore of the Augusta, and received
the national salute The American Con-
sular salute was then fired. The nation
al salute was returned from the Black
Prince, a six thousand ton English iron
clad frigate, condemned and now sery-
ing as guard ship here.
The town stands upon the side of ele-
waited land, and we could see the people
in the streets and houses, looking down
upon the new corners, evidently de-
lighted. And SO the passage has been
made, and our American monitor iron
clad, with much credit to herself for the
excellence of the performance, now lays
quietly at anchor in a British harbor.n
Capt. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, who went out in the Miantono-
mob, writes to the Navy Department
that our monitors could use their guns
in sea-way when frigate would find
it impossible to use her battery. The
Miantonomoh was much less affected by
the sea than the large vessels which ae-
companied her, the difference In steadi-
ness in favor of the monitor being from
twelve to twenty degrees. A vessel
which attacks a monitor in sea-way
must approach very close 20 have any
chance of hitting such low hull, and