tore peatos are also -- and i use tore peatos in the 19th seven temperaturery sense -- using spar tore peatos to destroy the merrimack is also extremely popular. this idea, which in a smaller way, is actually used during the civil war if you think of curbings attack on the arbormarl, that is how it is sung by using a much more scaled-down version of this torpedo. the monitor could eliminate it that way. you also have alan smith writes in with an extremely detailed plan. i don't know how it would work. the monitor would be equipped with this burr torpedo that has prongs on it and would be basically shoved into the merrimac's hull. how it would be possible in 1862, i don't know. you have basically a motor attached to this little torpedo where it would drill itself into its enemy and the explosion, of course, would destroy it. there is also what i call the flying torpedo. you fire the cannon ball over the merrimac with just enough powder to skim the roof. that would pull the torpedo through the air right up to the merrimac's hull and once again you could destroy her that way. even from th