The modern battleship is a vastly more complex structure, and represents more complex ideas and combinations than did Ericsson's "Monitor."

" On this early June day when we again encounter Dave Darrin and Dan Dalzell in their handsome Naval uniforms, all members of the first, second and third classes were due to be aboard one of the three great battleships that lay off the Yard at Annapolis at four p.m. These three great battleships were the "Massachusetts," the "Iowa" and the "Indiana."

One battleship was one unit, one chessman on the naval board.