January 30, 1862 – USS Monitor (Ironclad) : Launched
ZONA PERANG (zonaperang.com) – Today in 1862, the US Navy’s first ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, is launched. Considered a hi-tech marvel at the time, conditions aboard were dark, stuffy & miserable. “Any man who would stay on an ironclad by choice is a candidate for an insane asylum,” recalled one sailor. Ironclad warship built for…
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