Early in the Civil War, two ironclad ships faced off in a battle that would change naval warfare forever. What made ironclad ...

The plans call for the ironclad to be 234 feet in length and 47 feet wide. It was meant to be armed with 8 Brooke Guns in short casemates in addition to a turret mounted Blakely cannon. This ship was ...

Planning for the eventual battle began in 1861 with the implementation of the Anaconda Plan by Union ... repaired this ship ...

The USS Onondaga was another ironclad ship built during the Civil War ... The president said plans are proceeding for a May 5 dedication of a building on South Peterboro Street in the village ...

Making up for smaller numbers Virginia wasn't always an ironclad. It was originally the 40-gun steam frigate USS Merrimack, commissioned in 1856. Merrimack was a sister ship of Minnesota and had ...

Friday's 150th anniversary of the pivotal battle between the Civil War's first ironclad ships at Hampton Roads, Va., arrived without fanfare in the city that forged the resilient iron skin of the ...

Tensions increase as the North and the South simultaneously build Ironclad ships. Tensions increase as the North and the South simultaneously build Ironclad ships: the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S ...

Instead, the locally produced CSS Georgia, a one-of-a-kind ironclad produced for the Confederacy ... “Over time the ship’s casemate, the iron-covered upper portion of the warship, came apart, ...