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The first battle between ironclads happened on 9 March 1862, as the armored Monitor was deployed to protect the Union's wooden fleet from the ironclad ram Virginia and other Confederate warships. [21] In this engagement, the second day of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the two ironclads tried to ram one another while shells bounced off their ...
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.
ironclad battleship: 6,901 1 May 1893 Paid off 1935, sold for scrap 1942 Centurion Royal Navy: King George V: super-dreadnought: 25,830 22 May 1913 9 June 1944 Scuttled as a "Mulberry" breakwater 9 June 1944 Charlemagne French Navy: Charlemagne: pre-dreadnought: 11,275 12 September 1899 1 November 1917 Stricken 21 June 1920, sold for scrap 1923 ...
Arminius was an ironclad warship of the Prussian Navy, later the Imperial German Navy.The ship was designed by the British Captain Cowper Coles and built by the Samuda Brothers shipyard in London as a speculative effort; [5] [7] Prussia purchased the ship during the Second Schleswig War against Denmark, though the vessel was not delivered until after the war. [11]
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 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. Greene, Jack & Massignani, Alessandro (1998). Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854–1891. Pennsylvania: Da Capo ...
Brennus, built in the late 19th century, was the first pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy. During this period, the French Navy experimented with the Jeune École, which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and cruisers instead of the expensive ironclad warships that had dominated naval construction in the 1860s and 1870s, and so the navy ordered a series of experimental designs to ...
Ironclad warships. A 1902 lithograph of SMS Oldenburg, Germany's last ironclad. Arminius class SMS Arminius, 1864; Prinz Adalbert class (1,560 tons, 5 ...