Presenter
John V. Quarstein
Director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center
About the Lecture
John Dahlgren was a naval ordnance officer who invented a boat howitzer and the famous Dahlgren naval shell gun. Six IX-inch versions were employed aboard CSS Virginia, and two XI-inch guns were mounted on USS Monitor. Dahlgren also designed the XV-inch shell gun, which, when used in the turrets of subsequent monitors, could destroy Confederate ironclad casemates, a breakthrough in naval warfare.
Image credit: John A. B. Dahlgren, USN. The Mariners’ Museum and Park E468.7.M6 Rare
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Location: Explorers Theater
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image header: John A. B. Dahlgren, USN. The Mariners’ Museum and Park E468.7 .M6 Rare