The two Scorpion-class ironclads, HMS Scorpion and HMS Wivern, were ironclad warships ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1862 and seized in 1863...

performing depth soundings near Union obstructions, Scorpion moved to get a lantern from the ironclad CSS Virginia II, but ran into a hawser and then ran...

HMS Scorpion was an ironclad turret ship built by John Laird Sons & Company, at Birkenhead, England. She was one of two sister ships secretly ordered from...

This is a list of ironclads of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of...

two ironclads. In 1864, the Admiralty bought them and commissioned them into the Royal Navy: El Monassir as HMS Wivern and El Tousson as HMS Scorpion. Wivern...

SMS Scorpion was an ironclad gunboat of the Wespe class built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1870s. The ships, which were armed...

SMS Scorpion was a steam gunboat of the Jäger class built for the Prussian Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The ship was ordered as part of a program...

Co. by the Royal Netherlands Navy as an enlarged version of the Scorpion-class ironclad turret ships originally ordered by the Confederate States Navy...

the ironclad USS New Ironsides, the Confederates continued building torpedo boats with hopes of breaking the Union blockade. Four vessels of the class –...

Adams Sr. told British Foreign Secretary Lord Russell that if the Scorpion-class ironclads – powerful warships capable of breaking the Union blockade which...

as HMS Scorpion CSS Mississippi II, seized October 1863 and commissioned as HMS Wivern CSS Stonewall, twin-screw steamer, brig rigged, ironclad, surrendered...

SMS Natter was an ironclad gunboat of the Wespe class built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1870s. The ships, which were armed...

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ship in 1826 and was sold in 1846. HMS Aetna (1855) was a 14-gun Aetna-class ironclad screw floating battery. She was laid down in 1854, but caught fire and...

shipwrecks: 17 June 1903 Ship State Description HMS Scorpion  Royal Navy The decommissioned Scorpion-class ironclad turret ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean...

broadside ironclad Minotaur-class broadside ironclads Minotaur (1863) Agincourt (1865) Northumberland (1866) Prince Consort-class broadside ironclads (converted...

total loss and was stripped and abandoned. HMS Scorpion  Royal Navy The decommissioned Scorpion-class ironclad turret ship was sunk as a target. She was refloated...

Asbolus verrucosus (LeConte, 1852), also known as the desert ironclad beetle or blue death feigning beetle, is a species of darkling beetle native to southwestern...

CSS Richmond was the name ship of her class of six casemate ironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed during...

starboard sides of the ironclads; Virginia II accreted to her bulk the gunboats Nansemond and Torpedo, with the torpedo boat Scorpion in tow. After passing...

(Imperial Navy) in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The class comprised Wespe, Viper, Biene, Mücke, Scorpion, Basilisk, Camaeleon, Crocodill, Salamander, Natter...

CSS Palmetto State was one of six Richmond class casemate ironclad rams built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed...

USS Patapsco was a Passaic-class ironclad monitor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for the Patapsco River in Maryland...

7,800 ton Sachsen-class ironclad, la-unched 1880 Baden: 29,000 ton Bayern-class battleship, launched 1915 Baltrum: Wangerooge-class (Type 722) tug Bansin...

SMS Mücke was an ironclad gunboat of the Wespe class built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1870s. The ships, which were armed...

sank the elderly Turkish ironclad Mesudiye. The arrival of more modern submarines to blockade the Dardanelles made the B-class boats redundant and they...

CSS Neuse (/nuːs/ NOOSE) was a steam-powered ironclad ram of the Confederate States Navy that served in the latter part the American Civil War and was...

Germans a significant advantage. On 1 November 1914 she and the destroyer Scorpion sank a Turkish armed yacht, believed to be involved in minelaying operations...

gun armament and heavy armour, called ironclads. Ultimately this line of development led to the dreadnought class of all-big-gun battleship, starting with...

CSS Tuscaloosa was an ironclad warship that served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Construction began in May 1862, under...