Ironclads
Ironclads conquered the age of sail and ushered in the age of the metal ship.
1866
The Affondatore was an ironclad vessel serving the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea. She led a short life on the seas, e...
1868
Arapiles was a frigate-turned-ironclad appearing in the middle to late 1860s and serving with the Spanish Navy. Construction ...
1866
From 1864 to 1870, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (the "Triple Alliance") were at war with neighboring Paraguay to form the "P...
1867
In the latter half of the 1800s, the world was a rapidly changing radical place, particularly in Europe due the expanding ind...
1864
The Ironclad Ram CSS Albemarle was surely not the first nor the biggest ironclad of her time. Nor did she carry the most cann...
1862
The CSS Louisiana was constructed by the Confederate States of America as a deterrent to Union naval forces attempting to con...
1862
CSS Virginia was a 4,500-ton steam screw propelled ironclad ram warship of 12 guns. She was rebuilt in 1862 by the Confedera...
1867
The HMS Agincourt was an ironclad vessel of the British Royal Navy, serving from 1865 through to 1909. The ship was a hybrid ...
1873
In the late 1870's, Sir Edward J. Reed (1830-1906), the British Admiralty's Director of Naval Construction (DNC), was develop...
1861
After 1815, the British Royal Navy took on the role of "World's Policeman" by - with some help from American Navy ships like ...
1860
France unnerved neighboring Britain when they unveiled their all-wood, steam-powered screw propulsion battleship - the 90-gun...
1864
In December of 1863, the Confederate States of America contacted the L'Arman ship building firm in Bordeaux, France to constr...
1862
USS Cairo (1861) was a City class ironclad gunboat constructed for the United States Department of War by James B. Eads and C...
1862
Northern spies reported to the US War Department that the Merrimack was being rebuilt as an ironclad. Then Secretary of the ...
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