New name for 'Heavy Wea
Peter Von Groote
panzer at Okway.okstate.edu
Thu Nov 21 08:23:37 PST 1996
You have it backwards, Merimac was the ship's original name.
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Subject: Re: New name for 'Heavy Wea
Author: Mark Harris <mark_harris at quickmail.sps.mot.com> at SMTP
Date: 11/20/96 4:56 PM
Lyonel said:
> "Armored combat" is what Patton and Rommel did in North Africa or
> what the Monitor and the Virginia did in the Civil War.
Damaris then asked:
>I thought it was the Merimac and the Monitor.
The Merimac was built from the remains of a wooden ship's hull that had been
burned to the waterline. I believe that ship was the Virgina which after
being
rebuilt as an armored ship was re-christened the Merimac (Though I think
we have the spelling wrong).
Stefan li Rous
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