“Duel of the Ironclads” |
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The Battle of Hampton Roads
The first battle of ironclad ships changed naval warfare forever. The Union had hastily designed and built an entirely new kind of warship—the Monitor. In an era when a warship’s strength was measured in number of cannons, the Monitor had just two. But these cannons were housed in a turret that allowed them to fire in any direction. Meanwhile, the South had managed to construct an ironclad on the burned out hull of the Union warship Merrimack. They renamed her the Virginia. These experimental vessels met in Hampton Roads near Norfolk, VA on March 9, 1862. Though each was hit by enough cannon fire to destroy any wooden warship afloat, neither ship was seriously damaged. The Monitor had proved that with just two cannons, she would be capable of destroying the most powerful wooden warships in the world. Suddenly, every navy in the world was out-of-date. price:
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