Gravity causes the ships iron anchor to sink to the ocean.
The Ocean Steamship Company owned many types of ships. Some of them were iron ships, wood schooners, iron steamers, wood brigantines, passenger liners and a wood?æbarquentine.?æ?æ
Monitor and Merrimack (vessel ships). Only fought once. Made of iron at the front. Ironclad ships were a new invention. These ships were covered with iron plates that would deflect shells. Tin-clad ships were river boats that were lightly protected by iron. "Blockade Runners" were a name applied to a varitey of fast ocean ships that were used to get through the Union blockade.
A large anchor used for ships can weigh around 100 tons. These anchors are made of heavy materials such as steel or iron to effectively hold a ship in place.
Because the ships might go to different directions(maybe)
Science and the body. What they thought they knew was based on superstition. An example of this was they thought that some ships sank because there were islands in the ocean that were magnets and they drew the ships to their watery grave because the ships had iron nails.
Ironclads.
boats
There are lots of ships named Iron Maiden about.
Ancient ships were made from wood with nails and iron fittings. Modern ships are steel.
Tudor ships were constructed of wood (planking, beams, masts and spars), iron nails and iron brackets, tar and unwoven rope to seal the gaps in the planking. Ships were constructed like this for centuries, until ships were finally constructed almost entirely of iron.
delivering iron
The USS Monitor.