JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
We had some great ships. It's like designers held a meeting and things got competitive " Oh yea? Well beat this. " Then Choctaw was born ( above I think ), and Chattanooga and Maratanza and those gunboats like Rattler that look like an ironclad and a transport steamer had a kid. We never saw them again, a wonderful blip on history's screen.
With apologies to @major bill , just spent awhile trying to wrap my head around the theme for his thread on beauteous iron clads. While browsing this mess called files on the laptop, realized one reason for an ( extremely amateur ) interest in ships of the war is because they're just so gosh darn interesting looking ( read; entertaining ). Dad was a British Navy buff, had only come across his ideas of amazing ships previous to getting interested in the ACW. What's not to love about HMS Victory- saw her in Portsmouth, in the 70's.
But really, we had some awesome, astonishing, delightful ships. No ' rules '- from the Chattanooga where someone glued boxes together out of necessity to Tyler, looking like a dangerous barn, had some crazy cool ships. Your pick, please?