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Clippers, outrunning the British blockade of Baltimore, came to be recognized as ships built for speed rather than cargo space; while traditional merchant ships were accustomed to average speeds of under 5 knots (9 km/h), clippers aimed at 9 knots (17 km/h) or better.
Constructed on the hull of USS Merrimack, Virginia originally was a conventional warship made of wood, but she was converted into an iron-covered casemate ironclad gunship, when she entered the Confederate Navy.
The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia is the oldest naval shipyard in the United States. It was established November 1, 1767 under the British flag, thirty-one years before the...
21 gru 2022 · On March 8, 1862, Virginia attacked elements of the Union’s North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in Hampton Roads, Virginia, scoring one of the most dramatic naval victories of the American Civil War. In one afternoon, the Confederate ironclad ram sank two Union capital ships and damaged two others, sank two transports and captured another, and ...
4 sty 2021 · By October 1800, aggressiveness of the cruisers of the United States Navy, as well as those of the Royal Navy, combined with a more conciliatory diplomatic stance by the French toward America,...
The Merrimack, a wooden screw frigate scuttled just before Confederates seized the Gosport Navy Yard at Norfolk, Virginia, was raised and converted into an armored ship under the direction of John Porter, future chief naval constructor, and Lieutenant John M. Brooke, future head of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography.
Before the Revolutionary War, America was a collection of seaboard colonies whose merchant vessels sailed largely unmolested, protected by Britain’s formidable Royal Navy. The Revolution gave America its independence, but with that came also a newfound vulnerability at sea.
