armoring portions of the vessel, were referred to as tinclad warships. The Union Navy used tinclad warships during the American Civil War, mostly converted...
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unsuccessful against Union ironclads. The Union Navy used timberclads, tinclads, and armored gunboats. Shipyards in Cairo, Illinois, and St. Louis built...
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on 21 December 1864, at Cincinnati, Ohio. The navy converted her to a "tinclad" gunboat at Mound City, Illinois, and commissioned her there on 10 April...
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was purchased for military service on September 17 and converted into a tinclad warship. Commissioned on October 21, the vessel served on the Yazoo River...
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November 30, and their transports had been escorted by a powerful fleet of tinclad and ironclad gunboats. Thus, the river barrier was well-defended. From...
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can United States Navy slang for a destroyer; often shortened to can. tinclad A lightly armored steam-powered river gunboat used by the United States...
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Thomas' Martyrdom Some Comments on "The General Sherman Incident of 1866 and Rev. Thomas' Martyrdom." USS General Sherman (1864–1865, "Tinclad" # 60)...
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USS Stockdale (1863), was a steamer purchased in 1863. She served as a tinclad in the American Civil War and decommissioned in 1865 USS Stockdale (DE-399)...
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UH-60 Black Hawk, a US Army utility helicopter USS Black Hawk (1848), a tinclad gunboat USS Black Hawk (AD-9), a Black Hawk-class destroyer tender 1913...
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most notably to the "Jeffersonian Gunboats" of the early 1800s and the "Tinclad" river gunboats of the Civil War Mississippi Squadron. It is important...
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