The SSIM Monitor was one of the four ironclad warships built for the USE Navy. During the Battle of Copenhagen the Monitor was badly damaged by a spar torpedo, and had to be grounded. Since the Monitor was beyond repair, its guns were dismounted and hauled overland in the general direction of Bavaria. This plan was devised by Tom Simpson and Eddie Cantrell, but moving such heavy guns over 17th century roads, especially through the Thueringerwald, proved to be much more difficult than they had expected. The original plan was to use them to threaten Munich, and force Duke Maximilian of Bavaria to release Mary Simpson and Veronica Dreeson, but events moved faster than the guns possibly could. Eventually, they were taken to Ingolstadt. It is not known what became of them after the Bavarians to