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Ironclad warship (4902 bytes)
1: ...e ironclad came in the mid-[[19th century]], when ironclads supplanted wooden ships, and then were themselve...
3: ==Premodern ironclads==
7: ... the admiral [[Yi Sun-sin]]—were said to be ironclads; however, they were not fully covered but just r...
9: ==Modern ironclads==
10: ...e French ''[[La Gloire]]'', the first ocean-going ironclad warship.]]

Merrimack (867 bytes)
6: ...in the [[American Civil War]], the first clash of ironclad ships in battle.

Turtle ship (1251 bytes)
4: Considered one of the first [[ironclad warships]] in the world, it had armour covering t...
8: Europeans had tried to make ironclad ships previously, but the iron weakened the Europ...

Naval Battle of Angamos (3579 bytes)
16: | strength2=1 Ironclad
18: | casualties2=1 Ironclad, 80 kills 120 capture
22: ...ilean Navy in October 8, 1879. The captain of the ironclad, Peruvian Admiral [[Miguel Grau]], was killed in ...
27: After the [[Iquique Naval Combat]], the peruvian ironclad ''Huascar'' made several incursions challenging t...
41: ...Melitón Carvajal]] and [[Diego Garezón]]) led the ironclad until the end of the battle, until it was clear t...

List of battleships of the Royal Navy (609 bytes)
10: == Steam-powered ironclad battleships (1860–1905) ==

HMS Swiftsure (1115 bytes)
4: ...]] of [[Swiftsure class ironclad|her class]] of [[ironclad]] [[battleship]]s.

HMS Agincourt (1318 bytes)
5: ...s frigate|''Minotaur''-class]] [[ironclad warship|ironclad]] frigates and launched in [[1865]].

HMS Scorpion (1863) (1687 bytes)
1: <b>HMS <i>Scorpion</i></b>, a 2750-ton ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, was one...
3: ...threat. The British government seized the pair of ironclads in October [[1863]], a few months after their la...
5: ...[[bark]] to a [[schooner]]. In late [[1869]], the ironclad was sent to [[Bermuda]] for coast and harbor defe...

USS Cyclops (516 bytes)
3: * The first ''Cyclops'' was an ironclad [[steamer]]. Originally [[USS Kickapoo|''Kickapoo...

CSS Charleston (1595 bytes)
30: ...''' was a [[Confederate Navy]] [[Ironclad warship|ironclad]] [[ram]] during the [[American Civil War]]. Con...
32: ...larger and stronger than the other two Charleston ironclads, but was underpowered with unreliable engines.

USS Katahdin (452 bytes)
4: ...Katahdin (ram)|''Katahdin'']] was an innovative [[ironclad ram]] in service from [[1897]] to [[1909]].

HMS Valiant (1863) (669 bytes)
1: ...HMS ''Valiant''''' was a British [[Royal Navy]] [[ironclad]] of the Hector class.

HMS Nelson (334 bytes)
1: * [[HMS Nelson (1881)|HMS ''Nelson'']] was an ironclad battleship of the [[Royal Navy]].

CSS Texas (1754 bytes)
26: '''CSS ''Texas''''', an twin-screw [[ironclad]] ram of the [[Confederate Navy]], was named for ...
28: ...aptured when the city fell the following day, the ironclad was taken into the [[United States Navy]], but sa...

Isaac N. Brown (1812 bytes)
7: ..., Mississippi]] to take command of the unfinished ironclad [[CSS Arkansas|CSS ''Arkansas'']] and complete he...
9: ...cksburg. Commander Brown was named captain of the ironclad [[CSS Charleston|CSS ''Charleston'']], which oper...

CSS Georgia (battery) (1561 bytes)
2: |align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:CSSGeorgia ironclad.jpg|300px|CSS Georgia]]
36: ...'State of Georgia'' and ''Ladies' Ram'', was an [[ironclad]] floating [[artillery battery|battery]] built at...

Battle of Mobile Bay (4251 bytes)
15: | strength1=14 wooden ships<br>Four ironclad monitors<br>Several gunboats
16: | strength2=Three gunboats<br>One ironclad
44: *USS ''Galena'' (950-ton ironclad gunboat/screw steamer)
46: The Union Navy also had 4 [[ironclad]] [[Monitor warship type|monitor]]s:
49: *USS ''Winnebago'' (1300-ton ''Milwaukee''-class ironclad river monitor, twin-turrets)

USS Essex (1856) (3725 bytes)
1: '''USS Essex''' was an [[ironclad]] river [[gunboat]] of the [[United States Army]]...
7: *Type: Ironclad River Gunboat
29: ...his ship without official authorization into an [[ironclad]] [[gunboat]]. Under his orders she was lengthen...
33: ... Farragut]]'s squadron and was the only Federal [[ironclad]] on the lower [[Mississippi River]]. On [[5 Augu...

HMS Agincourt (1865) (1720 bytes)
64: ...as one of three Minotaur class [[ironclad warship|ironclad]] frigates. She was a fully rigged ship with a s...

Japanese battleship Kotetsu (4300 bytes)
2: ...tsu.jpg|300px|]]<br/>''Kotetsu'', Japan's first [[ironclad]] warship, as [[CSS Stonewall|''Stonewall'']] c. ...
75: ...m the [[United States]] in [[1869]], she was an [[ironclad]] [[ram]] warship. She had a decisive role in the...
79: ...years after the launch of the first ocean-going [[ironclad]] [[warship]] in history, the [[French Navy]]'s '...

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