num_pages: 240
description: The nineteenth century saw several major innovations in naval warfare. Reliable steam engines made it so that ships no longer depended on the wind and could maneuver more freely. At the same time, new explosive shells were developed, replacing cannonballs, and no wooden ship could withstand them. In response to these shells, a new class of self-propelled, armored "ironclads" was invented and quickly revolutionized naval warfare.
language: English
title: War at Sea in the Ironclad Age
titlecomplete: War at Sea in the Ironclad Age (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
characters: Alfred Thayer Mahan, David Dixon Porter, David Farragut, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Tōgō Heihachirō
genres: Historical, War, Nonfiction, Military History, History, Naval History
ratings_count: 54
publisher: Harper Perennial