USS New Ironsides was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship spent most of her career blockading the Confederate ports of Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1863–65. New Ironsides bombarded the fortifications defending Charleston in 1863 during the First and Second Battles of Charleston Harbor. At the end of 1864 and the beginning of 1865 she bombarded the defenses of Wilmington in the First and Second Battles of Fort Fisher.
Although she was struck many times by Confederate shells, gunfire never significantly damaged the ship or injured the crew.[2] Her only casualty in combat occurred when she was struck by a spar torpedo carried by the CSS David. Eight crewmen were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Second Battle of Fort Fisher in 1865. The ship was destroyed by fire in 1865 after she was placed in reserve.
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USSNewIronsides was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship spent most of her career...
On October 5, 1863, she undertook a partially successful attack on USSNewIronsides which was participating in the blockade of Charleston, South Carolina...
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the US Navy in August 1862, and was assigned to the Union ironclad USSNewIronsides (1862). The President of the United States of America, in the name...
boring into her wooden hull. She was raised on 26 April and was towed by USS Vanderbilt to Hampton Roads, Virginia, where she arrived on 25 May 1865....
the US Navy in August 1862, and was assigned to the Union ironclad USSNewIronsides (1862). His enlistment is credited to the state of Pennsylvania. On...
images depict three ironclad monitors and U.S.S. NewIronsides firing on Fort Moultrie in defense of monitor U.S.S. Weehawken, grounded off Cummings Point...
and was assigned to the Union ironclad USSNewIronsides (1862). His enlistment is credited to the state of New York. On January 15, 1865, the North Carolina...
(1917). History of the Civil War. New York, Boston, London: Macmillan & Co. Roberts, William H. (1999). USSNewIronsides in the Civil War. Annapolis, Maryland:...
before serving as captain of the flagship, the broadside ironclad NewIronsides at Charleston in 1863. Admiral Du Pont noted, "No language could overstate...
to that time.) The attack was unsuccessful: the Union's best ship, USSNewIronsides never effectively engaged, and the ironclads fired only 154 rounds...
Union monitors, including USS Montauk, as well as two other ironclads, the armored frigate NewIronsides and a light-draft USS Keokuk, participated in the...
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