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Monitor was founded in March 1765 by Ignacy Krasicki and Franciszek Bohomolec, with active support from King Stanisław August Poniatowski. It came out weekly, later semi-weekly. Its title was a tribute to the "small" Monitor published by Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski.
The ballistic tables of the 24 cm gun gave its ranges for the different projectiles, charges and elevations. With a charge of 24 kg, the armor-piercing massive ogive shot had an effective range of 1,400 m. With the 20 kg charge, this was only 1,000 m. The ogive exercise shot was fired with 16 kg, and therefore got no further than 600 m.
One of the shots, from a 8-inch (200 mm) Brooke rifle, disabled her turret temporarily when it cracked an armor plate and broke a number of 2-inch (51 mm) bolts. Canonicus fired 24 shots and remained unscathed. [42] Along with 51 other vessels, Canonicus, Mahopac and Saugus also participated in the First Battle of Fort Fisher on 24–25 ...
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Deck: 24.6 mm (1.0 in) Conning tower : 225 mm (8.9 in) The John Ericsson -class monitors were a group of five iron-hulled monitors ; four were built for the Royal Swedish Navy and one for the Royal Norwegian Navy in the mid to late 1860s.
A woman who stowed away on a Delta flight from New York to Paris last week has been released from custody after being charged in federal court, but with more than a dozen conditions.