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What was the first unions ironclad ship name?
Monitor
What was the name of the first northern ironclad ship?
Monitor
What was the name of the confederate iron ship called the?
Ironclad
What was the name of the confederacys first ironclad ship?
CSS Virginia was the first 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 the raised and cut down original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack.
What is the name of the first union ironclad?
The first practical Union ironclad was the USS Monitor. While the Monitor carried only two guns, they were superior to the fixed broadsides of the Confederate CSS Virginia (the original name of the ship was "Merrimac", which is how the ship is widely known) because the Monitor's guns were in a rotating turret which could be aimed in any direction. The fixed cannon of the Virginia could be turned only slightly; in order to turn the guns, they needed to turn the ship.
What was the name of the first nouthern ironclad ship?
Monitor.
What was the first unions ironclad ship name?
Monitor
What was the name of the first northern ironclad ship?
Monitor
Civil War southern NOT northern ironclad ships?
The SOUTHERN ironclad ship was the Merrimac, which was also called the Virginia.
What was the first ironclad ship made?
The first Ironclad ship ever made was by the northern states during the civil war was named the Monitor.
What was the name of the confederate iron ship called the?
Ironclad
Who first used the ironclad ship in the civil war?
The Union
What was the famous union ironclad ship?
The Union Ironclad ship was the Monitor. The Confederate ship was the Virginia.
Was there an ironclad ship in the Civil War called the Monitor?
YES. IT FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF HAMPTON RHODES AGAINST THE IRONCLAD MERRIMAC IN THE WORLDS FIRST BATTLE OF IRONCLAD SHIPS
Are ironclad ships considered weapons?
A ship is by itself never a weapon, and that also goes for an ironclad ship. The ironclad could only be called a weapon carrier.
What was the name of the confederacys first ironclad ship?
CSS Virginia was the first 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 the raised and cut down original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack.
Six plus six eguals?
The USS Monitor. the name of the union ironclad ship
