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Updated: May 27, 2025
She is three hundred feet in length and sixty feet in breadth; her tonnage is two thousand, and her water-draught only six feet, so that she can enter Calais Harbour at even a low tide. Two transverse iron girder bulk-heads unite the two hulls of the vessel; and her steering apparatus is so simple, and at the same time so effective in construction, that one wheel is usually sufficient to work it.
It has but a single turret, and its guns throw six hundred pound shot, carrying three miles and a half. Her water-draught is about six feet more than that of the Cyclops and Hecate, and her armour-plates three inches thicker. Though she carries fewer guns, the Glatton is a much more powerful vessel than the other monitors.
'I have fared content in my solitude * With wate'er befel, and led life of ease, On a water-draught and a bite of bread, * Coarse salt and a gown of tattered frieze: Allah might, an He pleased, give me easiest life, * But with whatso pleaseth Him self I please."
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