Ironclad Photo Gallery II: Ships

[USS (ex-CSS) Atlanta]
The former Confederate ironclad Atlanta, in Union
service on the James River in 1864

The officers of the Atlanta while in Union service

Sometime flagship of the western gunboats, the Benton was
converted into a gunboat from a powerful salvage vessel

The Cairo, a "Pook Turtle," the first warship in the
world to be sunk by a mine ("torpedo")

[USS Camanche]
The west coast monitor Camanche, a few years after the war

The Canonicus, a later monitor, coaling along the
James River where she spent much of her career

[USS Carondelet]
The stern of the Carondelet, the most active
of the riverine ironclads

The failed monitor Casco, operating as a torpedo
boat without her turret on the James River

[USS Catskill]
The deck of the Passaic-class monitor Catskill;
skipper Edward Barrett is sitting on the turret

The Confederate ironclad Chicora at Charleston

[USS Choctaw]
The Choctaw was designed by William D. Porter to be a
massive ram, but the only ship she ever sank was a Union boat

The Pook turtle Cincinnati was sunk twice during the war.
She was raised and put back into action both times

[USS Eastport]
The Eastport's conversion into an ironclad was begun
by the Confederacy and completed by the Union

The stern of the Essex, showing her unusually tall casemate;
the boxlike structures on her stern are actually outhouses

[USS Essex]
The Essex began service as an unarmored gunboat, then was partly
armored; heavily damaged at Fort Henry, she was then fully armored

The Jackson, sometimes known as the Muscogee;
Her hull is on display at a museum in Columbus GA

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