User blog comment:Void Samukai/The 7 key BBs in history/@comment-25453078-20160118040111

I will do one later. Because I am tired. But here is the earliest

1. U.S.S Monitor, although technically not a BB John Ericsons design changed the face of naval warfare forever, by incorporating her main armerment in a turret rather than in broadsides. She was the true precursor to what would come in less than a 100 years.

Armament: two 11in Smoothbore Dahlgren guns.

Armor: belt 3-5 in, turret 8 in, deck 1 in, pilot house 9in and depending on time sloped.

Engine: 2 horizontal fire tube boilers- 320ihp

Speed: 6 knots

So what do you think is this a valid point? Or am I off the reservation again.