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    An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result...
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    gunports, the casemate ironclad is seen as an intermediate stage between the traditional broadside frigate and modern warships. In its general appearance...
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    Kōtetsu (甲鉄, literally "Ironclad"), later renamed Azuma (東, "East"), was the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was designed as...
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    CSS Virginia (category Ironclad warships of the Confederate States Navy)
    steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using...
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    large, heavily armored warship equipped with many powerful guns. A term which generally post-dates sailing warships. Ironclad battleship, battleships...
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    the first combat between ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. The Confederate fleet consisted of the ironclad ram Virginia (built from...
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    Victoria class (or Sans Pareil class) of the 1880s was the first class of ironclad warship (sometimes described as a battleship) which used triple expansion steam...
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    Empire and Italy began in the 1860s when both ordered a series of ironclad warships, steam-propelled vessels protected by iron or steel armor plates and...
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    Huáscar is an ironclad turret ship owned by the Chilean Navy built in 1865 for the Peruvian government. It is named after the 16th-century Inca emperor...
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    term battleship came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ironclad warship, now referred to by historians as pre-dreadnought battleships. In 1906...
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    SMS Friedrich Carl (1867) (category Ironclad warships of the Imperial German Navy)
    SMS Friedrich Carl  was an ironclad warship built for the Prussian Navy in the mid-1860s. The ship was constructed in the French Société Nouvelle des Forges...
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    USS Monitor (category Ironclad warships of the Union Navy)
    USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned...
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    However, the rise of the ironclad frigate, starting in 1859, made steam-assisted ships of the line obsolete. The ironclad warship became the ancestor of...
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  • France built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during...
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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...
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  • plates. Ironclad may also refer to: Casemate ironclad, a particular type of ironclad warship in use during the American Civil War-era Ironclad (film),...
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    industrial warfare. Railroads, the electrical telegraph, steamships, the ironclad warship, and mass-produced weapons were widely used. The war left between 620...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Gloire
    The French ironclad Gloire ([ɡlwaʁ], "Glory") was the first ocean-going ironclad, launched in 1859. She was developed after the Crimean War, in response...
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    Merrimac, was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during the American Civil War. The CSS...
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    The Arkansas-class ironclads were a class of two casemate ironclads ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1861 to operate in the Western and Trans-Mississippi...
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    be produced well into the 20th century. With the introduction of ironclad warships, the definition was widened to include a protected space for guns...
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    HMS Warrior (1860) (category Warrior-class ironclads)
    of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response...
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    meantime, an Imperial fleet had been rapidly constituted around the ironclad warship Kōtetsu, which had been purchased by the Meiji government from the...
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    acquired a series of ironclad warships, built almost entirely in foreign shipyards. The first class, the four Osmaniye-class ironclads, were ordered from...
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    purchased or built sixteen ironclad warships. In 1860, however, the Prussian Navy consisted solely of wooden, unarmored warships. The following year, Prince...
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  • 1863, and captured by the Union Navy in 1864 CSS Georgia (1863), an ironclad warship built in 1862 and decommissioned in 1864 CSS Georgiana USS Georgia...
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  • armor refers to the various protections schemes employed by warships. The first ironclad warship was created in 1859, and the pace of armour advancement accelerated...
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  • Three naval vessels of Japan have been named Fusō: Japanese ironclad Fusō, an ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy that fought in the Battle of...
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    battleships of the British Royal Navy were late-nineteenth-century ironclad warships. Both were named after naval battles won by the British during the...
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    ship of the line, first seagoing ironclad warship, first mechanically propelled submarine, first steel-hulled warship, and first armoured cruiser. The...
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