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The USS Monitor was the first U.S. Navyship to be made mostly of metal. She was an ironclad ship that was deployed during the Civil War. The first battle between ironclads occurred at the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, when the Monitor went against the CSS Virginia. The CSS Virgina, which was an ironclad built from the remains of the former USS Merrimack, was the first ironclad built.
The first use of metal on a U.S. Navy ship was when the USS Constitution's wooden hull was sheath with copper. However, this was not for protection from battle. It was sheathed to protect the wooden hull from the ravages of seawater and sea organisms that grow on wooden hulls. The sheathing was applied when the ship was constructed. It was the first ship of the U.S. Navy and was launched on September 20, 1797.
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∙ 14y agoQuite possibly a tin (toy) battleship during the 1880s, as this was when the world's navies were building steel battleships and replacing their wooden ships.
More likely it was the USS Monitor, an ironclad battleship commissioned in Feb. 1861 and sunk in Dec. of the same year (foundered in a storm off Cape Hatteras). The tin (toy) battleships were possibly designed after this and the CSS Virginia (also and ironclad) which the Monitor engaged to a tactical draw in March of 1861.
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