The Merrimac
Monitor
Ironclad
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 raised and cut down original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack.
The first practical Union ironclad was the USS Monitor. While the Monitor carried only two guns, they were superior to the fixed broadsides of the Confederate CSS Virginia (the original name of the ship was "Merrimac", which is how the ship is widely known) because the Monitor's guns were in a rotating turret which could be aimed in any direction. The fixed cannon of the Virginia could be turned only slightly; in order to turn the guns, they needed to turn the ship.
Monitor.
The Merrimac
Monitor
The first Ironclad ship ever made was by the northern states during the civil war was named the Monitor.
Ironclad
The Union
The Union Ironclad ship was the Monitor. The Confederate ship was the Virginia.
YES. IT FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF HAMPTON RHODES AGAINST THE IRONCLAD MERRIMAC IN THE WORLDS FIRST BATTLE OF IRONCLAD SHIPS
A ship is by itself never a weapon, and that also goes for an ironclad ship. The ironclad could only be called a weapon carrier.
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 raised and cut down original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack.
The USS Monitor. the name of the union ironclad ship
It is the CSS Albemarle.