Describing the ship as an ironclad is a bit misleading. The roof as you can see in the photo had a spiked metal top that was used to prevent boarders. The rest of the ship was wood. I saw some clips of Korean produced movies with these ships in action and pretty gruesome scenes of Japanese impaing themselves trying to board one of these ships. The Admiral who commanded the Korean fleet is the Nelson of Korea.
Thanks for that explanation. I wasn’t sure about the words “iron clad” because it makes me think Monitor vs. Merrimack/Virginia
There’s a fantastic Korean historical drama “The Immortal Yi Sun Shin” ...a few American PBS stations have run it with subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKKp0tguDYY
Definitely give it a watch if you can find it anywhere...kicks the crap out of the junk that Hollywood puts out.
The Nelson of Korea? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Pardon my incivil mockery but who knew Korea had ever floated a turtle warship in harm’s way.
If these were the only warships they lost in battle against the Japanese, how many battles did their Nelson fight? Perhaps this was their first and last battle.