Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-11-09

some disarrangemsns of machinery
6nd Iesstlhn 3 dozen rounds Had
she remained ten minutes longer in
the position first taken she would have
beans to the bottom. Shawas, hit
upwards of sixty tines A. once 4or:
every fifty seconds sof The engage-
lnentsa The shot she fired would hayeI
disabled any two wooden ships afloat.
One of her shot cracked the parapct
wall of Fort Sumter for q distanceief
|twenty-eight fest, and anotksr
struck and demolished columbfad
and its carriage.
THE NAHANT. -
The Nahant did not advance near
erthak ] 900 yards, and yet she was
mtsighty tines She presented, no
more of 9 talgst ID The big guns nj
that distance than floating hogs
bead, and yet certain pieces trained
upon her from Sumter and ~Moultrie
did hot miss more than one shot out
of~six. Her crew. went into action
believing her impregnable, but the
second shot received cracked one of
her plates WIDE open. In ten minutes
three plates had been fractured, and
she was leaking. In twenty minutes
|it wasseen that she could be pounded
te pieces even Il that distance. One
of the last shots 1received was an
enormous solid bolt from a Brooke
gun. This bolt struck the pilot-honse
square and fair, driving ins DOZEN
bolts and cracking Che irous plates as
a stone cracks pane of glass. She
had six Of her crew wounded-one IA
Ftally-by lying bolts salofse. She
went out OF the fight haif & wfeck,
having fired about two dozen shots.
- THE PAssAIC. ia
The Passaic was hit over fifty times.
One gun in Sumter struck her six
times ia succession. Had she, been
lying alongside Of a three-decker she
would have driven her shot clean
through her every time, and every
one would have made a hole like a
barrel, but ut ths nins or Eteii shots
she fred at sasdteE phly two stfuek,
and those with no damage. There
were dozen places where sthe con
federate shot had s,ploKed fotrows ID
her iron plates as plow leaves its
mark on the soil 0neplnnging, shot
which struck tie top Of her pilot
house left . cavity in the solid iron
Which vbnld have held two quarts sof
water, she hsd nine plates crackel
by one single shot, and such was the
jar when the heavy shot struck her
tAat men were knocked down.. She
Ishowed three spots where the iron
plates were forced inwards until huge
cones appeaedpn tue ipsides and she
vert out OF the fight with her big
Igun disabled and her turret out of or
der. ..
- rHE xANTucKET. @s q
ls~Ehis monitor fired fifteen shots,
piAe of whfchswere wen planted, and
vas hit overzffty hines. Three Of
the guns in Sumter fired only at her
port shutters and for sesenSor eight
Minutes eighteen guns were trained
upon her at fair range. At the end
of thirty minutes her large guns
could no longer be- worked, her tur-
lret nas eutzof ordg, md she had re-
leayed such woarlas AS proved that
|ha dessruction voah be only ques-.
ton of time under that fire.
i THE CATSkILL.
This craft fired twenty-five shots
and was hit fifty-one times Three
d Che best shots planted in Fort Sum-
ter were fired. from her guns. She
was SCARED and sfurowed from end
to end, her plates cracked and brok.
Ten, and one bolt vent through Che
iron deck, leaving a hole as large as
a mans head.
~ szz@ THE wEEHAwKEN.
| p Despite her misfortune at the open.
ling of the fight, the Weehawken fired
twenty-six shots, twenty of which hit.
In turn she was struck about sixty
times, having several plates cracked
md Hmping out of the fight with he1
pumps going.
THE PATAPsCO. f..ss5.esf,
/ This vessel fired eighteen shots
iand was hit forty-fvs times, bul
most of the shot glanced off. She
had three or four plates cracked
i was abulged,' in three or four spots
and one confederate bott peeled 1 ftr
row through solid iron three inche'
deep. - - = -, % Z. e
THE .NONTAUK. asft 81 ga'G
/ Until just before the signal TO drol
out Of the fight, none Of the iron
cladswere nearer than q mile to Sum
1kry ssAllNof . sudden the Keokuk
I provided with double.hrrets, steanet
ahead until within rifle range. Sh'
i was one of tie stoutest, II not th'
|very best Of the aeet, and her gun
iwere served in manner 10 elicit th'
admiration Of The confederates.so Sh
was hit ninety times sixty Of th
shot striking Der in the space Of te1
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