They could resist burning, withstand cannon fire, splinter wooden ships, and travel much faster than other ships.
The speed of ironclads during the US Civil War is questionable in its relation to the speed of wooden warships.
Did you know that a Swedish engineer designed the Monitor, an ironclad ship in the Civil War? A+
Monitor
The Merrimac and the Monitor Battle OR the Ironclad Battle
The Union
The SOUTHERN ironclad ship was the Merrimac, which was also called the Virginia.
The ships in the Civil War were called the Ironclad.
Did you know that a Swedish engineer designed the Monitor, an ironclad ship in the Civil War? A+
Monitor
The Merrimac and the Monitor Battle OR the Ironclad Battle
The Merrimac
Naval battle
inconclusive
The Union
The answer to that is the south.
The SOUTHERN ironclad ship was the Merrimac, which was also called the Virginia.
CSS Virginia was a Confederate ironclad warship. Horatio Van Cleve was a Union General during the war.
TOM DAVIS