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To: BenLurkin

The Confederate States Navy patterned all of its ironclad rams after CSS VIRGINIA.

The United States Navy patterned all of its ironclad gunboats after USS MONITOR.

Both designs “worked” after a fashion.

23 posted on 08/18/2015 2:33:57 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")

To: NorthMountain

26 posted on 08/18/2015 4:18:41 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Let Baal plead for Baal because one has destroyed his altar!)

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