10 Facts About Ironclad warship

An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates, constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.

Ironclad warship gunboats became very successful in the American Civil War.

Ironclad warship became technically feasible and tactically necessary because of developments in shipbuilding in the first half of the 19th century.

Ironclad warship's was propelled by a steam engine, driving a single screw propeller for a speed of 13 knots .

Ironclad warship's had been converted from a commercial vessel in New Orleans for river and coastal fighting.

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The battle attracted attention worldwide, making it clear that the wooden warship was now out of date, with the ironclads destroying them easily.

Ironclad warship age saw the development of explosive torpedoes as naval weapons, which helped complicate the design and tactics of ironclad fleets.

Unsuitability of unarmored iron for Ironclad warship hulls meant that iron was only adopted as a building material for battleships when protected by armor.

Ironclad warship construction prefigured the later debate in battleship design between tapering and 'all-or-nothing' armor design.

Ironclad warship's was eventually caught by two more modern Chilean centre-battery ironclads, Blanco Encalada and Almirante Cochrane at the Battle of Angamos Point.