| By the time of Lee's surrender, Lincoln's navy numbered 626 warships, of which 65 were ironclads. |
| She and her sister ship, the Choctaw, were side-wheel steamers altered into casemate ironclads with rams. |
| Two ironclads were laid down there, but these were unfinished when the Federal fleet took the city. |
| Time and time again uncompleted ironclads and wooden gunboats had to be destroyed to prevent their capture. |
| During the following month the Carondelet and Indianola, ironclads, joined the fleet. |
| As his vignette indicated, the initial stages of action saw the Russians landing damaging blows on the Japanese ironclads. |
