rebelatsea
Captain
- Joined
- Mar 30, 2013
- Location
- Kent ,England.
WOW 9"of iron over 24" timber, that's one h***l of a lot for what was basically a small (100ft or thereabouts)boat, and who was rolling 3" plate? Charlotte Naval Ironworks experimented with 5" but not so far as mass production."No 2- Represents a transverse section of the vessel showing the arrangement of the [iron] shield within the same immersed five feet below the water line. The armour for the shield is of three thicknesses of three inch plates backed by over two feet of oak. The sides of the vessel above the foot of the shield is of ordinary sheet iron after the manner of merchant vessels but divided transversely into compartments each ten feet in length."
-Francis Lee (undated report to Beauregard)