...before and after conversion into an IronClad" (The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, March 1885). in the English navy apart from these two that it would...were produced in France, which had but one sea-going iron-clad, La Gloire, and this one, like the Warrior, was only protected amidships. The Emperor Napoleon...

...The editors opined that apart from the ironclads Warrior and Ironside, there was not a single ship "that it would not be madness to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor.'"* The battle certainly awakened opinion in the North on the value of sea power, and it renewed the confidence...

...available for immediate purposes one hundred and forty-nine first-class warships, we now have two. . . . There is not now a ship in the English navy apart...trust to an engagement with that little Monitor" (The Royal Navy had two experimental ironclads.) Another example of a phenomenon that can be reasonably...

...had no such illusions. The Times of London, after pointing out that Britain had two ironclads, said, "There is not now a ship in the English navy apart...madness to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor."12 Before the war ended, both the Union and Confederate navies had far more ironclads than...

...for immediate purposes 149 first-class warship?. we have now but two. these two being the If "arrior and her sister Ironside. There is not now a ship in...trust to an engagement with that little Monitor." That these views were exagef rated was shown in the near future when it became known t both the Mcrrimack...

...we had available for immediate purpose one hundred and forty-nine first-class warships, we now have two, these two being the Warrior and her sister Ironside....from these two that it would not be madness to trust in an engagement with that little [American] Monitor.. — The Times (London), 1862 The most recent...