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The gunfire of Rear-Admiral Jackson's fleet of H.M.S. Grafton, Raglan, Monitors 15, 29, 31, and 32, river-gunboats Ladybird and Amphis, and the destroyers Staunch and Comet, was worthy of the King's Navy. They were assisted by the French battleship Requin.
These river-gunboats, like the little "Monitor," had none of the grace and grandeur of the old style of sailing-frigate, in which Paul Jones fought so well for his country.
Truly it may be said, that, if the great civil war made naval architecture more powerful, it also robbed the war-vessels of all their beauty. It is hard to appreciate now the immense difficulty experienced in getting those first seven river-gunboats built by the appointed time.
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