made it to denmark before last minute haggling over the contract led to a breakdown of the actual sail but the danes kept the ship anyway by this point the ship had been supposed to go to two separate owners the confederacy and the danish navy but had not actually seen any service this was compounded when in NUMBER_TOKEN after the war with prussia had ended the danes sold the ship to the confederacy anyway and she became css stonewall gradually making her way down the english channel across the bay of biscay and out into the atlantic union ships arrived to challenge her but the union's ocean-going navy consisted of unarmored vessels and they ended up declining any engagement with the small ironclad by may the ship had reached cuba and was preparing to make the last leg of its voyage when news came that the war was over and the confederate states no longer existed having now failed to enter service with its owners for a third time and with a now united states navy flotilla offshore the ship was briefly sold to spanish authorities in cuba who promptly sold it on to the united states which sailed her to washington naval yard and to put her in reserve in the winter of NUMBER_TOKEN as they weren't entirely sure what to do with her a couple of years later her prospective sixth owners the japanese showed up looking to build up the nasa japanese navy this sale went through and now under the name kotetsu the ship set sail for the long journey to japan where you guessed it she once again failed to enter service this time due to a civil war between the imperial court and the shogunate the latter having been the ones who'd actually ordered the ship but also the ones to lose the civil war and so the ship would now enter imperial service technically making the japanese emperor the seventh successive owner of the ship now flagship of the actual imperial japanese navy kertetsu finally actually got to do something as it sailed to put down a remnant faction of tokugawa loyalists who tried to claim independence after losing the main war having had one of her smaller guns removed in favor of half a dozen light pieces and a gatling gun the ship would fight in two battles at the battle of miyako bay the ship was boarded by the rebel steam frigate kaiten but managed to clear off the boarding party by using the gatling gun to sweep its own decks clear the ship would also lead efforts in the naval element of the battle of hakodate which was a much more closely fought fight that saw the future admiral togo taking part aboard one of the other japanese vessels but by the end of NUMBER_TOKEN despite being less than a decade old the small ironclad was nonetheless determined to be of little further combat usefulness thanks to the advances in technology and renamed azuma she was then assigned to various guardship duties as larger and more modern ironclads were brought into japanese service and this would end up being her single longest period of service as she was eventually decommissioned at the start of NUMBER_TOKEN and then scrapped at the end of the following year that's it for this video thanks for watching if you have a comment or suggestion for a ship to review let us know in the comments below don't forget to comment on the pinned post for
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