- service.
Tinclads were cheaper,
required smaller crews, and
could enter shallower water than
ironclad warships due to
their light drafts.
While tinclads were...
-
unsuccessful against Union ironclads. The
Union Navy used timberclads,
tinclads, and
armored gunboats.
Shipyards in Cairo, Illinois, and St.
Louis built...
-
other surplus tinclads had
their armor and
protective features, as well as
their armaments, removed.
Including vessels other than
tinclads, sixty-three...
-
Mississippi River Squadron. The next day, she was ****igned to a
flotilla of
tinclads led by
Lieutenant Commander Watson Smith that had been
organized for operations...
-
identification number 2;
these numbers were
painted onto the
pilothouses of the
tinclads beginning in June 1863. She was
commissioned into the
Union Navy on October...
-
engine stern wheel-propelled
Speed 9.5 kn (10.9 mph; 17.6 km/h)
Complement 30
Armament 2 × 12-pounder rifles, 2 × 12-pounder
smoothbore guns
Armor tinclad...
-
Silver Lake, Springfield, Victory, Naumkeag, and
Queen City,
which were
tinclads and gunboats. A few
steamers lagged to zone-up,
protecting against a possible...
- Missouri,
during the
Civil War.
Hartt oversaw the
construction of the
tinclads USS St.
Clair and Brilliant, the
ironclads USS
Choctaw and Lafayette, and...
- The
second USS
Glide was a
sternwheel tinclad gunboat in the
United States Navy
during the
American Civil War. It was used in the
battles of Mississippi...
-
single sequence.
These four
classes were
known as "Treaty cruisers" and "
Tinclads" and were seen even
before World War II as
deficient by the Navy due to...
