Cottonclads were a classification of steam-powered warships where a wooden ship was protected from enemy fire by bales of cotton lining its sides. Cottonclads...

of ship was later replaced by the seaplane carrier. Cottonclad warships were steam-powered warships with bales of cotton lining as armour used in the American...

grouped together under the term "cruiser". See "Cottonclad warship". A type of steam-powered warship, used in the American Civil War, in which a wooden...

warships but had timber in place of iron to act as ablative armour. Cottonclad warship Battle of Fort Henry USS Conestoga (1861) USS Essex (1856) USS Lexington...

schooner, burned to prevent capture. CSS General Beauregard, confederate cottonclad warship. Confederate States Navy This article includes a list of ships with...

CSS General Earl Van Dorn was a cottonclad warship used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. General Earl Van Dorn was purchased...

Era No. 5 — a shallow-draft steamer built in 1860 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — was chartered by the Confederates early in 1863 to transport corn from...

Chattanooga. CSS Colonel Lovell  Confederate States Navy 6 June 1862 A cottonclad warship that was rammed by USS Queen of the West and USS Monarch in the First...

CSS Grand Duke, a steamer built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1859, was outfitted as a cotton-clad gunboat for service with the Confederate States Army...

smaller tenders, who succeeded in an operation to drive superior Union warships out of Galveston Bay. After a brief contest at sea, the USS Harriet Lane...