For the high-freeboard ironclad type developed in the 1870s, see Central battery ship.
American Civil War warship type
Casemate Ironclad USS Cairo on a contemporary photograph.CSS Palmetto State, the archetypal casemate ironclad. Note the sloped deck and the low waterline.Detail of the remains of USS Cairo as a museum ship today. The sloped casemate deck is clearly visible.
The casemate ironclad was a type of iron or iron-armored gunboat briefly used in the American Civil War by both the Confederate States Navy and the Union Navy. Unlike a monitor-type ironclad which carried its armament encased in a separate armored gun deck/turret, it exhibited a single (often sloped) casemate structure, or armored citadel, on the main deck housing the entire gun battery. As the guns were carried on the top of the ship yet still fired through fixed gunports, the casemate ironclad is seen as an intermediate stage between the traditional broadside frigate and modern warships.
The casemateironclad was a type of iron or iron-armored gunboat briefly used in the American Civil War by both the Confederate States Navy and the Union...
turreted ironclad USS Monitor and the Confederate casemateironclad CSS Virginia (built from the scuttled remains of USS Merrimack). "Casemate ship" was...
United Kingdom and as a casemate ship in European continental navies, was a development of the (high-freeboard) broadside ironclad of the 1860s, given a...
various ironclads design such as the ram, broadside, central battery (or casemate), turret and barbette will be mentioned. Some of these ocean ironclads can...
an iron-covered casemateironclad gunship, when she entered the Confederate Navy. By this time, the Union had completed seven ironclad gunboats of the...
steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemateironclad using...
ocean-going casemateironclad of 14 guns built for the Union Navy. She resembled an enlarged, two-masted version of the Confederate casemateironclad CSS Virginia...
France built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during...
CSS Muscogee was an casemateironclad built in Columbus, Georgia for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Her original paddle configuration...
CSS Albemarle was a steam-powered casemateironclad ram of the Confederate Navy (and later the second Albemarle of the United States Navy), named for...
Press, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 Konstam, Angus, New Vanguard 56, Union River Ironclad 1861-65, Osprey Publishing, 2002. ISBN 978-1-84176-444-3 Mahan, A. T. (1885)...
other two gunboats she was built in Brazil and was designed as a casemateironclad. Commissioned in April 1866, the ship did not enter combat until September...
first steam powered battleship. HMS Warrior, first ironclad battleship of the Royal Navy Casemateironclad USS Cairo on a contemporary photograph. HMS Prince...
CSS Palmetto State was one of six Richmond class casemateironclad rams built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed...
historical ironclad; instead, Texas is represented on screen as an amalgam of the original CSS Virginia and Porter's original casemateironclad (co-)design...
CSS Arkansas was the lead ship of her class of two casemateironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed in...
CSS Fredericksburg was a casemateironclad that served as part of the James River Squadron of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War...
CSS Missouri was a casemateironclad built by the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Her propulsion machinery was taken from an existing...
CSS North Carolina was a casemateironclad built for the Confederate Navy in 1863 during the American Civil War by Berry & Brothers at Wilmington, North...
under the command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemateironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack)...
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