- service.
Tinclads were cheaper,
required smaller crews, and
could enter shallower water than
ironclad warships due to
their light drafts.
While tinclads were...
- ocean-going
warships coming up the Mississippi, the
Union Navy used timberclads,
tinclads, and
armored gunboats.
Shipyards at Cairo, Illinois, and St.
Louis built...
- 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...
-
single sequence.
These four
classes were
known as "Treaty cruisers" and "
Tinclads" and were seen even
before World War II as
deficient by the Navy due to...
- most
notably to the "Jeffersonian Gunboats" of the
early 1800s and the "
Tinclad"
river gunboats of the
Civil War
Mississippi Squadron. It is important...
-
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...
-
identification number 2;
these numbers were
painted onto the
pilothouses of the
tinclads beginning in June 1863. She was
commissioned into the
Union Navy on October...
- 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...
-
Silver Lake, Springfield, Victory, Naumkeag, and
Queen City,
which were
tinclads and gunboats. A few
steamers lagged to zone-up,
protecting against a possible...
- and a tug. Five of the
gunboats were of a type
known colloquially as "
tinclads,"
vessels of
light draft carrying thin
armor capable of
protection only...
