When you think of Civil War ships, you might think of the old, trusty Ironclad. Here’s what they looked like: But there’s a curious picture in the Library of Congress that caught one librarian by ...
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 ...
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Why stealth warships and Civil War ironclads share the same hull design, the physics of deflecting radar and cannonballs
The angled armor that bounced cannonballs off Civil War ironclads turns out to work just as well on modern radar, and it's ...
As dawn broke over Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862, the Confederate Navy ironclad CSS Virginia left the Gosport Naval Yard and sailed toward the grounded Union frigate USS Minnesota. The day ...
If technology has become key, then so are the resources that support it. Eighteenth-century Britain fought wars to ensure that it had access to naval supplies such as wood, hemp and tar. In the ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ironclads 2: Boshin War Create your fleet and army, hunt the enemy’s fleet, hide your weak squadrons in protected ports until reinforcements arrive, ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ironclads: Chincha Islands War 1866 Spain tried to restore by force its influence on its former colonies, Chile and Peru. This strong Spanish squadron ...
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