Hefty lifted one foot heavily and bore down on the disappointed masker like an ironclad in a heavy sea.

These, in spite of their small fighting capacity, would be able to attack the strongest ironclads by well-aimed torpedoes.

The Monitor was built at New York, and was intended for harbor defense; but the fact that the Confederates were building a great ironclad at Norfolk made it necessary to send her to Hampton Roads.

The advantages of armor had been already demonstrated on the French ship "Gloire" and others in connection with the naval part of the Crimean War, and there was a feeling that ironclads of some kind were a necessity of the situation.

Realizing the weakness of our navy, and the unprotected position of our seaports, Chili instantly dispatched her three ironclads to New York.

Once started, the French pressed on the construction of their ironclads with all haste, and in the autumn of 1863 they had at sea a squadron of five ironclads, not including in this list La Gloire.

Admiral Dupont was explaining to Farragut his reasons for not taking his ironclads into Charleston harbor.