The ironclades of the US Civil War, proved to be warships that could easily destroy wooden cargo ships and wooden warships. Their importance was clear. They were able to dominate the high technolgy of the US Civil War with regards to sea battles.
Because they were safer and stronger than wooden ships
It signed the unstoppable decline of wooden battleships' age.
The Land Ironclads was created in 1903.
Ironclads are boats. Admirals usually command navies, not generals.
Ironclads are not the same thing as submarines. Ironclads do not go underwater completely even though the majority of their body may be underwater.
Boats covered in iron are commonly referred to as ironclads.
The same weapons as in any war, anything you can get your hands on. To name a few muskets, rifles, cannons, mortar, ironclads, sailing ships, rockets, gatling guns, swords, knifes, bayonets, sharp wooden baricades, fire, everything.
Ironclads could destroy wooden enemy ships using either cannon fire or by ramming them.
some time in the 1800s
Ironclads.
Ironclads.
The Monitor and the Merrimack