Palestro was an ironclad warship, the second and final member of the Principe Amedeo class, built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1860s and 1870s. She was armed with a battery of six 254 mm (10 in) guns and one 279 mm (11 in) gun.

The Palestro class consisted of four ironclad floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859–1862 to replace the Crimean War-built Dévastation class because of fears that the 1855 ships would deteriorate because they had been hastily built with green wood that was prone to …

The list of ironclads includes all steam-propelled warship (supplemented with sails in various cases) and protected by iron or steel armor plates that were built in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, between 1859 and the early 1890s. The …

Oct 14, 2019 · Meanwhile a small Italian gunboat, Palestro, dashing in heroically to aid the ironclad, received a shell in her wardroom which set it alight and forced her to retire; later she blew up as the flames reached the magazine. These were the only ship losses of the battle.

The Palestro Battle of May 31st 1859: one of the most legendary battles of the Second War of Italian Independence, fought by the Franco-Piemontese army led by Vittorio Emanuele II, who, overtaken the Sesia, prevailed on Austrians. Therefore, the charnel house is dedicated to the battle preserving the remains of the falls.

Rather than being applied to a specific type, the term ironclad can be characterized by the irreducible presence of three features: steam propulsion by screw propeller, a metal-sheathed hull, and a main armament firing exploding shells.

With the invention of steel plate technology, both Union and Confederate warships would make the wooden seafaring vessels of the world obsolete. This technology served the navy first in 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads. The first of these vessels was made by the Confederacy and was named the CSS Virginia.

Imagine, amidst the gun smoke and roaring cannons, two formidable Civil War Ironclads emerge, set to change the tides of war! 🛡️🌊 🌟 WHAT TO EXPECT? 🌟 A comprehensive historical analysis...

Napoleon III, built a powerful ironclad fleet with which he hoped to secure British support for a wide-ranging reconstruction of the European state system. Although relations with France dominated British diplomacy throughout this period, they have attracted relatively little explicit a. tt

One of seven shallow-draft City Class river ironclads, The U.S.S. Cairo was commissioned in January of 1862. Named after towns along the upper Mississippi and Ohio rivers (Cairo, Illinois in this instance), the seven formidable City Class gunboats prowled the Mississippi River and connecting shallow waterways, menacing Confederate supply lines ...