About ten o'clock last night the attack on Aberdeen ended in a rush of six ironclads into the river mouth.
Six large Russian ironclads are heading at full speed towards the mouth of the river-- The telegram broke off short here, and no more news was received from Aberdeen for several hours.
What the executive decided upon was the construction of fast wooden vessels with guns of such a range that their shots would destroy the ironclads without allowing the shots of the latter to reach our vessels.
The despatch is from Commodore Cialdini, captain of one of our ironclads stationed at Massowah.
Whilst the Sultan and Suleiman were engaged in parleying, the big guns of Ahmed’s ironclads were heard booming in the distance.
It is impossible, however, to avoid the conviction that the Dupuy de Lôme would be a most powerful and disagreeable enemy for either of the eight great ironclads of Great Britain now building to encounter on service.
The Redoutable is built partly of iron and partly of steel and is similar in many respects to the ironclads Devastation and Courbet of the same fleet, although rather smaller.
The Russians had no vessels capable of facing the hugeironclads of the enemy.
The entrance to unimportant creeks, indeed, had not been guarded, but the Russians had already laid down many torpedoes in the river to protect them from Turkish ironclads while engaged in constructing their pontoon bridges.
The danger of attack by torpedo-boats having been recognised, both ironclads had let down their crinolines.
But for all that the days of "sticks and string" were numbered, as were those of broadside ironclads and box batteries.
The Thunderbolt is one of these old ironclads which has come down to the useful but inglorious duty of acting as a landing-stage in the River Medway.
In the early days of ironclads there were various theories as to the best fighting-formations.
But the submarine promised to make even the most powerful ironclads of doubtful value.
Wilson, author of Ironclads in Action, my thanks are also due for permission to make use of the plan illustrating the fighting at Alexandria in 1882.
Each of the ironclads is provided with four 27 cm.
Soon afterwards the Austrian fleet appeared, the ironclads leading, the wooden ships in the rear.
Soon the two lines of ironclads closed amid thick clouds of smoke.
Ironclads will ram and sink the enemy," signaled Tegetthoff.
Italy was the strongest in navel vessels, possessing ten ironclads and a considerable number of wooden ships.
Arabi having failed to comply with this also, the British ships, consisting of eight powerful ironclads and five gun-vessels, cleared for action and took up their positions, the French fleet retiring to Port Said.
The ironclads were detained, but President Lincoln, Earl Russell, and Lord Palmerston had all passed away before the dispute about the Alabama was brought to a close.
Later on, two ironclads were on the point of leaving the Mersey for the Confederate service.
The brave little Keokuk is riddled with balls and sunk, and the fleet of ironclads have retired from before the city.
Our Navy does contain, however, a considerable number of ironclads of the monitor class, which, though not properly cruisers, are powerful and effective for harbor defense and for operations near our own shores.
Two iron torpedo ships have been completed during the last year, and four of our large double-turreted ironclads are now undergoing repairs.
The five double-turreted ironclads belonging to our Navy, by far the most powerful of our ships for fighting purposes, are also in hand undergoing complete repairs, and could be ready for sea in periods varying from four to six months.
The gunboats opened fire when a mile and a half from the fort, and continued advancing slowly and firing rapidly till the ironclads were within four hundred yards of the battery.
He saw these ironclads, too, not in profile, as he was accustomed to see ironclads in pictures, but in plan and curiously foreshortened.
One of the airships lay on the water burning, a remote monstrous fount of flames, and far in the south-west appeared first one and then three other German ironclads hurrying in support of their consorts.
And presently they came in sight of the shapeless ironclads with their funnels belching smoke, a most remarkable spectacle.
Those clumsy ironclads of his can't move backward or forward, and the Rebs have been peppering him for two days.
He felt humiliated, discouraged, and not at all like the kind of fellow to command ironclads and lead armies.
Our ironclads have rams, but they never get near enough to other ships to strike with them.
At that moment day broke, and, as the silver light of the dawn spread over the dark of the sea, we saw three ironclads approaching us at all their speed, and then not three miles distant from us.
She was yet a pitiful spectacle; for as we drew near to her, I could see women weeping hysterically on the seats aft, and men alternately helping them and looking over in the direction whence the three American ironclads steamed.
For ourselves, we stepped on the frailest craft with which men ever faced the Atlantic, and at that moment the first of the ironclads fired another shell at the nameless ship.
A chapter treating of ironclads would, we think, be incomplete without allusion made to the loss of the Captain, whose terrible fate in 1870 has caused a mournful interest to be attached to that vessel.
Changes in the construction of ironclads are every year taking place, and considerable difference of opinion exists among our highest naval authorities upon important points in marine architecture.
The experiment," says Morley, "of vigorous representations emphasized by ironclads at Alexandria has been fairly tried, and there seems to be no doubt that it has completely failed.
There is a skill of a different but equally high order in knocking huge ironclads about in fleet-exercising at sea.
Whilst our yachts can do anything but speak, our ironclads can do anything but float.
Whilst yachts are developing all the perfections of the sailing ship, our ironclads seem to be developing most of the imperfections of the steamship.
But this does not apply to English ironclads alone.
The four ironclads were sent ahead, close to the forts.
There were twenty-four wooden war vessels and four ironclads like the Monitor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ironclads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
