After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.

The ironclad, first used in the American Civil War, resistant to cannons, soon made the wooden ship obsolete.

* 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the is launched.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The and fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

* November 24 – The French Navy's La Gloire (" Glory "), the first ocean-going ironclad warship in history, is launched.

* January 30 – American Civil War: The first US ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, is launched.

From this arsenal came the 723 tons of armor plating that covered the CSS Virginia, the world's first ironclad used in war, as well as much of the Confederates ' heavy ordnance machinery.

In the language of the scholars who endorse this view, courtly love is cherished for its exaltation of femininity as an ennobling, spiritual, and moral force, in contrast to the ironclad chauvinism of the first and second estates.

* The Spanish frigate Numancia, with Juan Bautista Antequera y Bobadilla, between 1865 – 1867 ; first ironclad warship circumnavigation ; " Enloricata navis que primo terram circuivit ".

The Monitor appeared the next day, initiating the first battle between ironclad warships on March 9, 1862 at Hampton Roads, Virginia.

England, France, and Russia all purchased iron for warships from here due to the quality ; iron produced in Ironton and surrounding areas was used for the USS Monitor, the United States ' first ironclad ship.

* CSS Virginia was the first Confederate ironclad, built using the hull of the captured USS Merrimack

Possibly the most popular attraction was a re-creation of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, which had taken place within sight of Sewell's Point 40 years earlier during the Civil War.

The first fleet action between ironclad ships was fought in 1866 at the Battle of Lissa between the navies of Austria and Italy.

The major significance of the battle is that it was the first meeting in combat of ironclad warships.

In 1860, the French Navy commissioned, the world's first ocean-going ironclad warship.

The first ironclad battleship, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in November 1859.

After the first clashes of ironclads ( both with wooden ships and with one another ) took place during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmored ship of the line as the most powerful warship afloat.

The ironclad became technically feasible and tactically necessary because of developments in shipbuilding in the first half of the 19th century.

* The Spanish Navy Numancia, first ironclad warship to circumnavigate the world

* HMS Warrior was the Royal Navy's first ironclad ocean-going armoured battleship, and was launched in 1860.

Steam engines were introduced, at first as an auxiliary force, in the second quarter of the 19th century. The French ironclad French battleship La Gloire | La Gloire under sail The Crimean War gave a great stimulus to the development of guns.

The first ironclad warships, the French Gloire and British Warrior, made wooden vessels obsolete.

A further complication for the campaign planning was the emergence of the first ironclad warship, CSS Virginia, which threw Washington into a panic and made naval support operations on the James River seem problematic.

The first modern production technology for armour plating was used by navies in the construction of the Ironclad warship, reaching its pinnacle of development with the battleship.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

* 1893 – The, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.

She became famous as the first of a new concept in battleship design, using all big gun, single calibre armament.

This can be seen as early as the second episode of the first season, which recounts the defeat of the original battleship Yamato while sailors and pilots from both sides salute her as she sinks ( this scene was cut from the English dub, but later included on the Star Blazers DVD release ).

* October 16 – HMS Queen Elizabeth launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the first oil-fired battleship.

* October 24 – HMS Warrior, the world's first ocean-going ( all ) iron-hulled armored battleship, is completed and commissioned.

** WWII: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto naval base.

* December 29 – The world's first ocean-going ( all ) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the ( British ) HMS Warrior, is launched.

Raeder dismissed carriers as " gasoline tankers ", argued that aviation had a small role to play in naval warfare and had little use for submarines, ordering that battleship construction should have first priority over submarines in German ship-yards.

This was naval history's only decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets, the first naval battle in which wireless telegraphy played a critically important role, and has been characterized as the " dying echo of the old era – for the last time in the history of naval warfare ships of the line of a beaten fleet surrendered on the high seas.

The first battleship produced at Elswick was H. M. S Victoria, launched in 1887.

* The first was a second-class pre-dreadnought battleship ( launched in 1889, originally classified as an armored cruiser ) whose sinking by an explosion, either internal or by a mine, on February 15, 1898 at 9: 40 p. m. killing 266, precipitated the Spanish-American War.

The first anti-ship missiles, which were developed and built by Nazi Germany, used radio command guidance, these saw some success in the Mediterranean Theater in 1943-44, sinking or heavily damaging at least 31 ships with the Henschel Hs 293 and more than seven with the Fritz X, such as the Italian battleship Roma or the cruiser.

After undergoing his training at the Naval Training Station, San Francisco, he served on the battleship for the rest of his first enlistment.

* Jean Bart ( 1910 )-23, 600 tonne battleship ; the first French Dreadnought

* USS Massachusetts ( BB-54 ) would have been a battleship of the first South Dakota class, canceled by the Washington Naval Treaty in 1923.

He was first officer of the battleship SMS Brandenburg when it was sent to East Asia in 1899 during the Boxer Rebellion.

*, a Virginia-class battleship, sailed on the first leg of the Great White Fleet's voyage, and provided anti-submarine services during World War I.

In the first naval battle in the Second World War the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was engaged by the Royal Navy ( RN ) cruisers,, and off the estuary of the River Plate.

However, three days into the war ( 10 December ), those two ships were sunk by Japanese aircraft, with HMS Prince of Wales becoming the first battleship in history to be sunk strictly by airpower while at sea and fighting back.

It was the first time that a battleship had been sunk by enemy aircraft while underway at sea.

In 1922, the obsolete, US Navy battleship USS Iowa became the first of these target ships.

His first duty would be aboard the battleship, an 11, 400 ton veteran of the Spanish-American War.