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They haven't stopped yet. However, the beginning of the end for wooden ships was the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac during the US Civil War. Although they were iron-clad wooden ships, the advantage of metal warships was apparent when bullets and cannon balls bounced off of them. There were many technological advances during the last quarter of the 19th century and by the end of the century no major country was building wooden warships.

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