The book begins with the merrimack, newly recommissioned virginia, steaming into its first battle and decimating the union navys proud wooden ships blockading. In ironclad, journalist paul clancy weaves three great sea adventures into a single mesmerizing tale of life and death. Period 5 timeline of major ideas and events 18441877. Park is a modeler who has gone a step further and produced a solid book on the construction details of the confederate ironclad. My brother, very luckily for him as it chanced, preferred to push on at once to the. Because the entire turret could be rotated independently of the ship, the. Confederate ironclads, assistant secretary of the navy gustavus fox simply replied. She was the worlds first seagoing ironclad a warship built from wood.
The creation of a confederate ironclad fleet was a miracle of ingenuity, improvisation and logistics. About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad, very low in the water, almost. The format of nathan hales hazardous tales is that each story is narrated by historic spy nathan hale. An ironclad is a steampropelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century. C 2017 steve carol old ironclad was written to honor the uss monitor, which only in recent years was discovered under the waters of the atlantic and parts of.
By the wars end powerful turreted ironclad warships, the high tech wonders of. Big bad ironclad, is of course a civil war tale, about the sea battle between the monitor and the virginia when i was growing up, we called that one the merrimack, two of the first ironclad ships. Louis, a cityclass ironclad gunboat constructed for the union navy. It also contained a novel revolving turret, which contained two cannons. The civil war period was just at the dawning of the era that would produce. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
The story of the first battling ironclads, the monitor. Hms warrior and the royal navys black battlefleet new vanguard angus konstam, paul wright on. This provides an excellent adjunct to the history of the uss cairo which further details both the construction, and battle history of this specific ironclad, and its sinking and raising some 100 years later, as well as some of the history of its six citynamed sisterships in the book hardluck ironclad, the sinking and salvage of the cairo by edwin c. Surrounded by a superior enemy fleet, confederate designers adapted existing vessels or created new ones from the keel up with the sole purpose of breaking the naval stranglehold on the nascent country. By the end of the war, the age of naval warfare between wooden ships was at a close. Read this book and over 1 million others with a kindle unlimited membership.
Ironclad down is the story of the css virginia, better known as the merrimack. Battle of the monitor and merrimack, naval engagement during the american civil war on march 9, 1862, at hampton roads, virginia, a harbor at the mouth of the james river, notable as historys first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. On march 9, 1862, the ironclad warships uss monitor and css. Naval heroism, the cold heart of battle, a killing storm, deep water salvage, flesh and blood historyironclad has it all. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The confederates retrofitted the sunken hull of a scuttled union ship with iron armor four inches thick, transforming her into a squat, lowfloating fortress rechristened css virginia. After all, its a terrible feeling to finish a book and to immediately want to discuss everything about it, bustle. Old ironclad civil war naval battle between the ironclad. The confederates ironclad advantage the washington post. This is a wellillustrated book on the building, life and death of the confederate ironclad. We are a local tucson metal band which started in 2009 we are currently on hiatus. With the outbreak of the american civil war, the union and confederate navies rushed to build ironclad ships to counter each other.