USS Galena (1862)
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USS Galena was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship was initially assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and supporte
A drawing of Galena cleared for action in 1862
Galena, after 1864 refit as a wooden sloop
CSS Virginia
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CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. She was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the raz
USS Galena (1862)
…condemned in 1870, and broken up for scrap in 1872. After the United States received word of the construction of the Confederate casemate ironclad, CSS Virginia, Congress appropriated $1.5 million on 3 August to build one or more armored steamships. It also ordered the creation of a board to inquire into armored…
CSS Virginia
Display showing 4 inches (102 mm) of iron armor backed by 24 inches (610 mm) of wood
Merrimack is rebuilt into Virginia
Chromolithograph depicting the Battle of Hampton Roads