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The list of ironclads includes all steam-propelled warship (supplemented with sails in various cases) and protected by iron or steel armor plates that were built in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, between 1859 and the early 1890s. The list is arranged alphabetically by country.
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armour plates. The term battleship was not used by the Admiralty until the early 1880s [ citation needed ] , with the construction of the Colossus class .
The first fleet battle, and the first ocean battle, involving ironclad warships was the Battle of Lissa in 1866. Waged between the Austrian and Italian navies, the battle pitted combined fleets of wooden frigates and corvettes and ironclad warships on both sides in the largest naval battle between the battles of Navarino and Tsushima. [26]
For the list of all the countries that had ironclads in their navies, see List of ironclads. Pages in category "Lists of ironclad warships" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called ' pre-dreadnought battleship ', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.
Ironclad warships of the Confederate States Navy (3 C, 31 P) D. Ironclad warships of the Royal Danish Navy (10 P) F. Ironclad warships of the French Navy (14 C, 15 P) G.
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3. Gibbons, Tony (1983). The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers: A Technical Directory of All the World's Capital Ships From 1860 to the Present Day. London: Salamander Books, Ltd. ISBN 0-86101-142-2.
Small battleships based on the Amiral Baudin, and intended for operating in the Baltic in case of war with Germany. [3] The British sometimes considered these to be sea-going battleships, [5] and sometimes coastal service warships. [2] Caïman (1885) – BU 1927. [1] Indomptable (1883) – BU 1927. [1] Requin (1885) – stricken 1920. [1]