Here’s What You Need to Know: The ironclad Sphinx lived a colorful life. It has long been common for aging warships to be retired but then sold to another nation for continued service – and that was ...

On October 12, 1861, CSS Manassas became the first ironclad to see combat at the Battle of the Head of Passes on the Mississippi River. Protected by iron or steel armor plates, ironclads held a ...

It has long been common for aging warships to be retired but then sold to another nation for continued service – and that was certainly true of many combat vessels built during the Second World War as ...

On March 9, 1862, Confederate Navy ship CSS Virginia and Union navy ship USS Monitor met in battle off the coast of Virginia. Their clash was inconclusive, but the battle was the first time metal ...

One of the worst-kept secrets of the Civil War was the plan to dominate America's waterways with ironclads. North and South raced to be first, while newspapers and scientific magazines reported every ...

She didn't have enough power to maneuver and effectively trade artillery rounds with enemy vessels in the swift Savannah River. Instead, the locally produced CSS Georgia, a one-of-a-kind ironclad ...