The USS Conestoga ran too far ahead of the rest of the Union force and was rammed and shot to pieces by the Confederates.
USSDunderberg and USS Puritain plus some light frigates vs. HMS Warrior, 3 heavy cruisers and light frigates.
Some of the highlights included the USS Atlanta ramming and capturing the CSS Virginia, the CSS Richmond passing completely through the Union fleet and returning unharmed, and the CSS Tennessee being forced to surrender by the combined gunfire of the USS Roanoke and USS Onondaga.
CSS Manassas, The Gray Turtle of the Mississippi, Flagship Models 1:192 Scale, Review by Mark Leonard - On April 18, 1862 the Executive Officer of the USS Mississippi looked up the river for which his ship was named and saw an odd craft approaching.
USSDunderberg, Union Casemate Ironclad 1867, Combrig 1:700 Scale - Combrig has produced a very unusual but fascinating model.
USS Monitor, Verlinden 1:200 Scale - Verlinden, a company best known for producing high quality diorama accessories in resin, has produced a resin kit of the
USS Cairo [Cairo class ironclad] [Photos, brief notes] [Photos, history] [Colored illustration: Sinking of the Union Ironclad Gunboat USS Cairo by torpedoes in the Yazoo River; history]
USS Keokuk [twin-turret monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description, illus.
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The story of the duel between the CSS Virginia (Merrimac) and the USS Monitor in Hampton Roads, Virginia on March 9, 1862, a naval engagement that would change the nature of naval warfare forever.
John Ericsson wasn't the only naval architect of genius in New York Harbor: After the Monitor was launched, William H. Webb designed a quite different and far more powerful ironclad, the Dunderberg.
When launched three months after the end of the Civil War, this ship was considered the most powerful warship in the world, yet she never entered the U.S. Navy.
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"USSEngland (CG 22)" Not the first ENGLAND, there was a WW2 corvette before her and she was named for a person and not the kingdom.
"USS General Sterling Price (1856)" A commandeered river boat hastily timbered over and armed, during the ACW she was used by the Union, captured and used by the Confederacy, and then captured and reused by the Union!
He got a sub for the same reason Stennis got a carrier; "How big a check do you need admiral?" The RIVERS is a one-off vessel, she had no reduction gears and relied on a very long turbine as a result.
