In battleship world what is a monitor?

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Go to this site if you want to know about the Civil War battleship USS Monitor. Sometimes a gun turret is refered to as a monitor. Also a stationary fire fighting nozzle onboard a boat or ship is called a Fire Monitor. http://www.answers.com/topic/uss-monitor-1 ________________________________________________________________________ Prior to World War 1, the British built coastal defense monitors for export to Brazil, but they were inducted into the British Navy instead for fear that Brazil might side with Germany. They were like small battleships with only one turret instead of multiple turrets. The British Navy operated them in World War 1, and one of them provided shore bombardment at Normandy in World War 2. The US monitors of the Civil War were the first, followed by the British monitors of World War 1. The German Navy used a monitor called an F-lighter in World War 2, and the USN returned to the concept in Vietnam with their monitors of the Mobile Riverine Force (Brown Water Navy). Basically, a monitor is a small ship by comparison, and with short range, but heavy armor and powerful armament. The first ship of this type, USS Monitor, was designed by John Ericsson who also invented the screw propeller for ships.