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Originally Posted by Oberon
Don't forget that you guys also had the first battle between Ironclads.  Made us drop production of wooden hulled ships. |
Actually your own
Warrior was iron-hulled and predated
Virginia and
Monitor (both of which were iron sheeting over wood hulls) by almost two years. The British and French used ironclad floating batteries in the seige of Sevastopol five years before that, in 1855.
And nobody stopped using wooden hulled ships entirely for another twenty years.