In the Civil War, couldn't we have just disabled the Merrimack instead of sinking it?

[Deep13]

[charlie and algernon]

1. nah, we just bounced cannon balls off it for a couple hours

imagine the headaches those poor sailors had after that "battle" :rofl:

[Deep13]

2. That's true. It was actually scuttled by the crew. nt

[Ptah]

3. They probably didn't want it to be a museum piece in their conquerors’ land.

:shrug:

[david13]

4. We? How did the "we" get in there? You were in the Civil War? dc

[Deep13]

5. Um, yeah, I was there on the Monitor. Weren't you?

Also, you kids get off my lawn!

[old mark]

6. We could have painted it blue and Yankee-fied it...nt

[Orsino]

7. There wouldn't have been a Merrimack at all if it hadn't been sunk first. n/t

[Deep13]

8. Why couldn't the CSA have put the Merrimack into a giant bottle...

...instead of fitting it with armor plates, renaming it "Virginia," fighting at Hampton Row and eventually scuttling it?

:evilgrin:

[taterguy]

9. Too bad that freaking storm took out the Monitor

Shame on the weather gods for depriving us of a tourist attraction