No old Iron sides was a ship used in the war of 1812. A British cannon ball hit the side of the ship on freshly cut replacement board. The board was strong enough to with hold the shock of the cannon ball. A sailor on the that ship called her "old Iron sides" from then on.
Ironclad
the union used there to block off shipping to the south because yes the south was mostly farming it was MOSTLY cotton the south made several attempts to break the blockade it failed but it did result in the first submarine the USS Henley which sunk only one ship they even built an iron clad ship i forgot the name this ship sunk hundreds of ships because its armor was basically impenetrable the union sent distress signals like the ones in army movies cut off right in the middle of it like cannon ball barely missed........................................and the ships triangular angle caused cannon balls to bounce off it the union built there own iron clad not triangular shaped but it did have the first rotatable torrent meaning if there retreating they can still fire back the battle of the iron clads was waged after days of seemingly no progress they both retreated no winner but internal studies show there would have been one ha it gone on a little longer.
if you are reffering to the civil war;and blockage being a blockade; then i have an answer. there was a battle between to ironclads (iron ships); The merrimac (southern ship; also called the Virginia) & the monitor (northern ship). neither ship could destroy each other because gun shot and cannon just bounced off of the iron. though there was no real win of the battle; because no one won; the south never tried to outrun the blockades again- concluding a Northern Victory. also **ships that got out of blockades were called blockade runners.
The jury is still out on who won the battle of Ironclad and continues to be a topic for debate. The battle was very important to both the north and south but since neither ship put the other out of battle the true results are inconclusive. Though the action was a tactical stalemate, since the Union blockade was not broken; so, the strategic victory must go to the North.
The South's first ironclad warship was the CSS Virginia. This vessel was constructed from a sunken Union ship the USS Merrimack. The Confederates retooled the ship, added much armor and became the first ironclad warship of the US Civil War.
marimack
An ironclad is a wooden-hulled water-going vessel which is covered in whole or in part by iron, serving as armor. Since the hull is clad in iron, it was called an ironclad ship.
A warship built of iron or steel, or plated (over it's wooden hull) with steel/iron plates.
Answer The USS Monitor was the first ship to have a flushing toilet that was mounted below the water line.
There are lots of ships named Iron Maiden about.
Ironclad
Yes, but often with oak, not metal.
No old Iron sides was a ship used in the war of 1812. A British cannon ball hit the side of the ship on freshly cut replacement board. The board was strong enough to with hold the shock of the cannon ball. A sailor on the that ship called her "old Iron sides" from then on.
During the 1800's wooden warships plated with iron were called "iron-clads." By 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, Russian sailors still called their all steel built battleships "iron-clads."
Iron clads.
a ship heavily armored in iron