A timberclad warship is a kind of mid 19th century river gunboat. They were based upon a similar design as ironclad warships but had timber in place of...
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USS General Price off Baton Rouge, LA, January 18, 1864 Timberclad warship Ironclad warship Blair, Jayne (2006). The Essential Civil War: A Handbook...
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Maritime Security. Retrieved 2021-09-01. Palucka, Tim (January 2017). "Timberclads, tinclads, and cottonclads in the US Civil War" (PDF). Cambridge University...
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The third USS Lexington was a timberclad gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Lexington was built as a sidewheel steamer at...
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timberclad warships were convincingly outclassed by the newer ironclad warships, and it would be one of the last naval engagements to see timberclad warships...
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with the assistance of Captain Seth Ledyard Phelps and his fleet of timberclad warships, moved against Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. Hoping for...
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conversion into warships. Both sides built ironclads, warships with heavy iron armor, and early in the war Union forces built several timberclads, vessels that...
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the West, remained to suffer the full onslaught of the powerful Southern warship. Recognizing the futility in attacking her adversary unsupported, Tyler...
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were largely unsuccessful against Union ironclads. The Union Navy used timberclads, tinclads, and armored gunboats. Shipyards in Cairo, Illinois, and St...
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reconnaissance mission up the Yazoo to search for the ironclad, consisting of the timberclad gunboat Tyler, the ram Queen of the West, and the ironclad Carondelet...
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USS Romeo was a sternwheel steamer that saw service as a tinclad warship during the American Civil War. Completed in August 1862 for civilian trade on...
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be reinforced by three vessels from the Union Navy, but only one, the timberclad USS Tyler, was available when the Confederate attack struck. Prentiss...
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and the ironclad USS Carondelet; the three vessels were joined by the timberclad USS Lexington on November 26. The movement down the Mississippi River...
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Silverstone, Pal H. Warships of the Civil War Navies. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989. Smith, Jr., Myron J. The Timberclads in the Civil War:...
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both sides of the battle. Ironclads were wooden warships armored with iron plating, while timberclads used extra layers of wood as armor. Dougan, Michael...
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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1921. Palucka, Tim (2017). "Timberclads, Tinclads, and Cottonclads in the US Civil War". MRS Bulletin. 42 (1):...
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Osprey Publishing, UK. p. 423. ISBN 978-0-7864-3579-1 Url —— (2008). The Timberclads in the Civil War: The Lexington, Conestoga and Tyler on the Western Waters...
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firing 28 shots. Curlew signaled with her ship's whistle for the nearby timberclad USS Tyler to come to her aid, but the Confederate artillery left before...
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forces further north in Arkansas. Composed of two ironclads and two timberclads, the Union fleet moved upriver. Two guns from Pontchartrain were taken...
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Navy. When Foote assumed command of the squadron it consisted of three timberclad (wooden) vessels, that had been converted to gun-boats by Commander Rodgers...
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inhabitants. She was subsequently refloated with the assistance of a Venezuelan warship and two merchant ships. D. B. Sexton United Kingdom The ship departed...
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