How/When did the US Government make its warships from wood to metal.
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US Civil War or thereabouts.
Armoured ironclad ships, ie partially metal ships, were fairly impervious to shipboard cannons from the time. The first fight between two of them, on March 9th, 1862, took some three hours and eventually both ships withdrew with no significant damage. Why? Again, because the metal armour on the ironclads made them all but impossible to damage with the cannons of the time. This fight meant the end of fully wooden ships as ironclads had shown to be vastly superior in just a single battle.
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