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USS Roanoke was a wooden-hulled Merrimack-class screw frigate built for the United States Navy in the mid-1850s. She served as flagship of the Home Squadron in the late 1850s and captured several Confederate ships after the start of the American Civil War in 1861.
Ironclad of the Roanoke: Gilbert Elliott's Albemarle. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing. ISBN 0-942597-63-X. Holden, Edgar (1888), "The Albemarle and the Sassacu: An Attempt to Run Down an Iron-Clad with a Wooden Ship", The Century Magazine, The Career of the Confederate Ram "Albemarle", XXXVI: 380– 392, OCLC 21247159
The Secretary of the CS Navy, Stephen Mallory, was very aggressive on a limited budget in a land-focused war, and developed a two-pronged warship strategy of building ironclad warships for coastal and national defense, and commerce raiding cruisers, supplemented with exploratory use of special weapons such as torpedo boats and torpedoes.
City-class ironclad; D. USS Dictator; G. USS Galena (1862) I. ... USS Roanoke (1855) ... Ironclad warships of the Union Navy.
As Roanoke was one of the ships that ran aground, ... In the film Sahara, CSS Texas, a later Columbia-class ironclad, is used as a plot device.
They were low-freeboard, steam-powered ironclad vessels, with one or two rotating armored turrets, rather than the traditional broadside of guns. The low freeboard meant that these ships were unsuitable for ocean-going duties and were always at risk of swamping and possible loss, but it reduced the amount of armor required for protection.
Theresa “Terri” DeWitt. Olympian Theresa “Terri” DeWitt, was born April 15,1963, at then-Fort Bragg, according to her Team USA profile.DeWitt later joined the Army in the 1980s and served ...
Invented in 1868 and deployed in the 1870s, it formed part of the armament of ironclads of the 1880s like HMS Inflexible and the Italian Duilio class. The ironclad's vulnerability to the torpedo was a key part of the critique of armored warships made by the Jeune Ecole school of naval thought; it appeared that any ship armored enough to prevent ...