For almost all of human history, boats were made of wood. Sure, today we've got amazing ships built from steel and composites, but people have been sailing for thousands of years, so almost every ship ...

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 ...

The Monitor-Merrimack showdown may be one of the Civil War's most overhyped chestnuts: the two ships were by no means the first ironclads, and their long awaited confrontation proved an anticlimactic ...

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The USS Cairo pulls up to the banks of the Mississippi River in 1862. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ...

Horace Safford Brown’s monitor, the USS Nahant, saw action for the first time on March 3, 1863. Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont ordered the South Atlantic Fleet’s newest ironclads to test their guns ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ironclads: American Civil War Battle of the civil war ironclads. Take part in battles from USS Monitor vs CSS Virginia before battles between armored ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ironclads: Anglo Russian War 1866 Russia sought to seize control of Constantinople. The city controlled the Black Sea straits, an important economic and ...

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