And in December, we insisted upon the completion of this vessel, for the reason that the rebels had several powerful iron-clad steamers nearly ready to destroy oar wooden walls. As a reply to our ...

The public mind is impatient of the slow action of Congress in regard to a supply of ironclad steamers-of-war. Under ordinary circumstances, this action would be deemed quite as rapid as would be ...

Pp. xxix, 409. Illus., notes, biblio., index. $23.95 paper. ISBN:1591142970. As noted in the foreword to Clad in Iron, books on the introduction of the steam powered ironclad warship invariably fall ...