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Old 09-26-2017, 10:04 AM
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Corey, that looks great. The Montgomery was one of the mystery ships. For years I had in my interesting but unproven list, then put two or three sets of apparently unrelated notes together and realised that they added up. I couldn't put my finger on why the shape was familiar and it took my good friend Charlie Robbins prompting to realise that John T Shirley was in Montgomery ( in fact he was in the Mobile area too) at the appropriate time - hence the paddle wheel Arkansas - take the wheels away and you will see what I mean.
We think the arrangement of machinery was such that they couldn't mount guns aft of the wheels which are well aft of amidships. Four inch armour was more or less standard, although being superceded by six inch on the big ships at the time.
The original crude sketch was done by someone in Mobile who obviously saw the vessel.
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