IJN Kotetsu / CSS Stonewall - Guide 256
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- The 7-times-owned ironclad Sphinx/Stærkodder/Stonewall/Kotetsu/Azuma is today's subject.
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USS Marblehead
Pinguin
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Project 24 Sovetsky Soyuz class Battleship
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Des Moines Heavy cruisers.
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Pinned post for Q&A :)
drydock question
thats quite the owner ping pong, are there any other ships with that amount of owners or does this one take the cake, or even the cherry on top.
I’ve noticed that some of the sources covering the belt and deck thicknesses on the KGV class differ on what the base stats were (15in belt & 6in deck or 14.7in & 5.8in), now I know armour would be close but not exact when made but I don't think that explains why some books differ about this. Yes this is an OCD question thank you for humouring me : )
Any chance we could see a video on the German scout cruiser concept? The spahkruezer I believe they were called?
I have finished rewatching the Guadalcanal series in full again and it struck me that US intelligence seems to not be as good as it was at Midway, was Midway just a lucky one off or had something changed between Midway and Guadalcanal?
Did the Polish Navy ever have plans to make a Coastal Battleships like the Finnish Ilmarinen, also how would the Ilmarinen have done in a battle against the Pre Dreadnought Schleswig-Holstein?
This ship is like the patron saint of joining multiplayer matches late, only to watch the defeat screen pop up before you load in
That's pretty damn accurate my dude.
Me playing WoWs PC be like
Getting some good old Battlefield 3 flashbacks
Ad for the ship be like: Pre-owned, slightly used, previous owner(s) lost in a civil war
Was never sunk. And could be made a ship in a Anime.
Lol
@@Eclispestar shares a name with an anime train
Also: "Has computer game celebrity". It is in Shogun II: Total War's "Fall of the Samurai" expansion and honestly one of the most formidable units in the game besides HMS Warrior.
a couple of civil wars
Having those ocean-going ironclads delivered to the Confederacy as planned would probably end with more of the New Ironsides class being built and maybe even Dunderberg being finished in time. It'd be harder for the Union, but it wouldn't be a game changer.
I agree. After Lee's attempted encirclement of Washington to force an end of the war on Confederate terms was defeated, there was simply no realistic chance for Confederate victory. More ironclads to occassionally break the blockade for a week or two at one port or another would only have prolonged the war a bit, not changed the outcome.
Offensive use of more ironclads against New York, or Boston, or Washington DC itself would have been unproductive at best. The Union Monitors were the best coastal defense ships in the world at that time and were available in sufficient numbers to repulse any confederate ironclad attack.
The Union had 4 Ocean going monitors by the end of the war. The Miantonomoh class. One of these was sent to Cuba to deal with CSS Stonewall, but the end of the war prevented this possible fight. These monitors were armed with 4 15” Dahlgren guns in 2 twin turrets, well armored, and relatively seaworthy. One crossed the Atlantic after the war and cruised to St. Petersburg. Another voyaged from east coast us, round Cape Horn to California. 4 more seagoing monitors of the Kalamazoo class were under construction, but never completed as the war ended. These had the same armament, but were larger, one knot faster (10 knots), more seaworthy with longer range. It is probable that these would have been accelerated had imported Confederate ironclads threatened. The USS Dunderberg would also probably have been accelerated.
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They wouldn't have needed the 4 ocean going monitors to defend against additional Confederate ironclads. They could be reserved for offensive action. The Passaic, Milwaukee, and Canonicus class coastal monitors could defend US ports against potential CS attack.
Either way, Confederate purchase of four or five (or more) ironclads wouldn't have prevented, or even long delayed, Confederate defeat.
Commerce raiders.
Well well well, Its about time he mentioned the Boshin War. I applaud him as their is very little in English on it let alone anything regarding the minor naval actions.
Parts of the old girl lasted in some form of service well into the 20th century - her armour plating was reused to make the armature shafts in the electric generators in the Asakusa Thermal Power Station, built in Tokyo in 1895
Oh wow I was curious what its bits went on to be. With as much scrap as a ship can offer it can go to some big project or another id imagine. Thanks for sharing.
@@Eclispestar You are entirely welcome, my friend... Its a bit of trivia I knew without resorting to google
Sailing that little tub across the Pacific must have been brutal. At least Halsey was'nt the captain. Typhoon ahead, steer straight for it.
Goddamn... this ship had more wanderlust in it than Jack Kerouac
To add more details. The CSS Stonewall's Captain worked out a deal were he'd sell the ship to Spain(cuba), who would sell it to the US. This was to ensure his crew got their commission, with the Confederacy defaulted.
Thank you. I was wondering how that sale had worked, since the owner had ...er... gone out of business.
That’s fairly brilliant.
Possession is 9 tenths of the Law.
@@jimmiller5600 in this case, possession is nine ninths of the law. Given that the last tenth straight out doesn't exist anymore.😂
If I recall, the Egyptians did come into some money around that time, as the US embargo on rebel cotton made Egyptian-grown cotton more expensive.
The great pyramid was stripped of its casing around this time.
Not only that, it basically gave Egypt a monopoly on cotton for the European market for the duration of the war.
@@rogersmith7396 Yep, stripped for construction around Cairo. Damned shame.
Egyptian cotton was not actually grown in Egypt, but in various parts of the Middle East, then brought to Egypt, woven into fabric and traded from there. Just like in the early industrial age wool from England was brought into Holland and Flanders, woven and traded from there.
@@stamasd8500 Being the middle man has its perks.
Takes me back to Shogun 2, I probably spent longer reading the unit description than actually battling with it though
I wonder if it the black ship in Way of The Samurai 4?
@@Eclispestar Probably but then again it was a British ships, so maybe it was based on?
It has a hugh cannon at the front with good penetration but lack good side weapondary.
Maps smaller than gun range and wooden frigates with HE shells gave rather short battles. :P
Dude FotS with some mods is like sooo good.
Guns feel just right in that game. And you still have normal samurai shenanigans.
And the naval bombardment and artillery can get outrageous.
"They fought it off by using the ship's gatling gun to sweep her own decks" Jesus no thanks, point blank naval gatling guns would be brutal
Bit of a callback though to the era when warships had forecastles & sterncastles; typically sporting light cannon and other ordinance to fire both out to sea & across the deck if needed.
*see Last stand of the Revenge for example of use*
If I remember old ships of the early cannon age had many guns in its foward castle that could shoot at its own deck. Boarding actions being very common.
Wonder if the future will develop power armor infantry that would board ships again.
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I mean, there have been quite a number of "Modern" boarding actions, primarily against pirates.
Usually insertion is by RHIB or helicopter with machinegun fire from a warship or another helicopter covering the boarding action.
Edit: link to video of one such boarding action -
ruclips.net/video/8gPU4g0DY6U/видео.html
Oh ya. No one expected rubber boats and AKs.
Coast guard boards a lot of ships.
Thought though is if we on earth ever see a ocean war again.
@@Eclispestar Honestly, the power armor isn't really necessary. We'd be perfectly capable of boarding an enemy ship in our modern era. It's just that in a modern war, there isn't really a need to do something so complex and cumbersome when you can just sink the enemy combatant with a smart-weapon.
You never know though. Maybe in a future conflict there might be an attempt to board a crippled warship. Perhaps even one similar to the past with LMGs sweeping the decks instead of Gatling guns.
My favorite iron clad sailing ship ever produced. Her higgledy-piggledy service history, her slight size, her massive ram bow, her odd weapon arrangement, and her clean lines make her charming on all fronts. Thank you for covering her Drach.
And when retired from service it would make a first class hotel per standard French design.
It would be interesting to have a review of the pre-federation colonial navies in Australia. Possibly not focused on one particular vessel but an accounting of who had vessels and forts and what became of them.
Victoria had a steam-composite ship of the line, the HMS Nelson
Doing the research on Google would be tricky.
@@ChestnutnagsToolsFromJapan Took about 7 seconds lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_navies_of_Australia#New_South_Wales
@@glenchapman3899 Oh well done.
I tried searching for info on the Victorian Navy a few years ago (like 10) after seeing a few cannon in the Botanic gardens from Victorian Navy ships. Got so much rubbish. Didn't think to go more broadly.
As well as the various state navies of the American War for Independence.
And here's me thinking we were on an IJN aircraft carrier riff. It's always interesting to hear about something different and unusual.
Like a Venetian Galleasse
Stonewall reminds me of professional sports, there's always a few players that just keep getting traded over and over. You kind of feel bad for them.
Imagine geting traded and before you play the winning game. The team files for bankruptcy.
They still make good money where they want to work. They don't have to become aluminum siding salesmen. I went to insurance agent school with a KC Kings NBA player. He was about 6 ft. 8. Guess it did'nt work for him.
Can you imagine Gatling guns at 10 meters? The gore splash must have been horrific.
That's a scary looking ship. Makes me imagine if Capt. Nemo had a surface vessel.
I've been low grade curious about the history of that vessel for probably 15 years, but never seen more info about it than, "Built in France, put into Confederate hands at sea, sailed for America but arrived in Cuba after the war ended and surrendered. Sold on to Japan."
Ye
Makes you then wonder where the scrap bits were sold off to and what they became. Some car today driving around was part of the screw or somethig. Maybe part of the future IJN was built out of its scrap.
@@Eclispestar Her armour plating was used in a power station of all places
It's a story nearly as strange as the CSS Shenandoah. Not that it had as many owners, but when it docked in Melbourne for repairs and resupply, the Victorian government did the work in a government owned dock, hosted a huge reception for the officers and the crew got free train trips and accommodation in nice country hotels. Meanwhile the ship was repaired to a high standard and the skeleton crew not on vacation made a tidy profit providing guided tours of their warship. They also recruited extra crew from adventurous locals. Shenandoah then went on to sink about 16(?) Union ships and was the last Confederate unit to surrender, in Liverpool, England of all places. The USA then sued the British government on the basis that their ships would not have been sunk if not for all the work done in Melbourne. The British pointed out that Victoria had "responsible government" was quasi-independent and that they had no control over what their so called colony actually did. However an international tribunal forced Britain to pay compensation for the lost ships, so they sent the bill to Melbourne and asked for a refund. Needless to say, the Victorian government never paid up.
@@Dave_Sisson
That's back in the day when men were men and Aussies were Aussies! Way to stick it to the Palmies
as a dane I find the lack of Stærkodder in the title highly problematic ;-)
Nice to see some coverage of this very interesting story.
+Thomas Aagaard. I would have preferred the older, Nordic version: “Starkad”. 🙂
@@Clipgatherer but the name of the ship, while nearly in Danish service was Stærkodder, and we Danes would have loved to hear how Drach's tongue would twist trying to pronounce that😁, the measurement drawings were in Danish, so he clearly have gotten hold of some source material from our navy
Have you done a view of historic ships of the Venetians? Or is there much history on some of them? If I remember those ships they had were massive.
Waiting for some "blinds" joke. Hopefully, it will be clever.
Could cover the Battle of Lepanto. 6 of the big guys were on station. A quick glance at historic stuff mentions they were used often as say a future ship of the line might of been. Epic broadside. Would not want to be next to it in something smaller.
He has done a bit on Venetians, but I think he has said they are a bit earlier for there to be good enough records to saying anything reliable, interesting, and lasting for more than a minute.
Its also difficult with the Ventians to separate commercial and government ship actions as from the 12th century on the ships of the navy were owned by individuals rather than the state (supplied and outfitted by a massive government owned arsenal) and would alternate between civilian and military service. In one incident almost their entire navy was pretty much wiped out in one battle, they just called up the merchant reserves, opened up the arsenal, and replaced the whole fleet overnight.
"If I remember those ships they had were massive."
That's not exactly saying much, as it's pretty hard to build a massless ship.
Thank you for your interesting story about the early Japanese Navy. Kotetsu, that followed a strange fate and finally played an active part in Japan. It is an interesting historical mischief of Kotetsu that the Tokugawa Shogunate, which originally ordered this ship from the United States, could not purchase it, but the new government, which is an enemy, bought it and led the Tokugawa Shogunate army to defeat. Kotetsu is a name that wasn't like the original Japanese ship.Kotetsu means that it is covered with iron or steel. The appearance of this ship is the same. It is understandable that she later changed her name to Azuma. 東 means the east of the direction if you look only at the Chinese characters, but when you read this Chinese character as Azuma, it means the Kanto area centered on Edo, which is located east of Kyoto.
That's what I wondered. So Japan literally named the ship "ironclad." That is about the most prosaic name for a warship imaginable.
This is my favorite channel by far. My first day was your USS Texas video. Keep up the great work Drachinifel.
Try Battleship New Jersey channel.
@@davidlium9338 the first Texas, I like the New Jersey channel
An amazingly interesting history for a ship that saw almost no combat.
And here we see the design lineage of the 40k universe
YES. I see it. Lol. The Emperor protects.
Protecting Japan from Xenos, Traitor & Heretic oppression.
@TSR For the Japanese at times of their history. That wouldn't be far off. God emperor and all.
The various Special Operations units have about the same role and survival rates as imperial guardsmen.
I'm an absolute beginner when it comes to war ships, and find your video's very interesting! Thx for sharing your knowledge this way!
Thanks for doing this one-Stonewall’s tangled global history has been a curiosity of mine for a long time.
Also love how much it looks like a steampunk Warhammer 40k warship
The rebuild into an Aircraft Carrier was a given.
XD
Put a giant helium balloon on it use it as a dwarf clan airship. I have a thing for airships. If I were super rich id have one made and buzz around the world. Docking at the empire state building and such.
Allowed per Washington Naval Treaty.
I had heard of the CSS Stonewall but always wanted to know more about it as well as what it looked like and now I do . Thanks for the upload , keep up the great work.
2:05 seeing that dilapidated looking vessel made it seem amazing that the Confederates got their hopes up. It could probably take a wooden ship but the monitors and other Union ironclads would have made short work of that. The Laird rams looked a bit more powerful at least operating in the open sea where the Union has few ironclads.
While the samurai that Kotetsu fought against at Hakodate Bay *were* Tokugawa loyalists, at this point the Shogunate was already over and they didn't see themselves as rebelling against the Emperor. Hokkaido (known as Ezo at the time) wasn't really considered part of Japan yet. They wanted to make it part of Japan (which happened), and have the Tokugawa clan rule it so that their now-unemployed retainers would have jobs again (which the Meiji government rejected).
It's actually kind of odd that this proposal wasn't accepted, yet appointing Tokugawa Iesato as a prince and making him Japan's chief diplomat to Europe was fine.
Well, what a journey that ship went through
IJN and CSS two titles i never thought could be used on the same ship
The Carfax 🦊on this ship was a long one.
Ya but it had a gatling gun. And you know the Japanese tricked that engine out. It could probably drift better than other yachts.
The ownership equivalent of musical chairs.
Ship ended up losing more wars than most ships ever see battles.
Thanks for posting this video. Iron class are such an interesting topic that rarely gets discussed. I've never seen the pics of the ironclads with sails and steam power. The ones I've read about and seen are the giant behemoths encased in thick sheets of iron that were hardly maneuverable. The poor souls that served aboard them were butchered if a Canon ball pierced through the hull and bounced about the inside. RIP brave sailors.
You can just imagine the reaction of the crew when it turns out the new owner is now the old owner.
Captain. Guess what men.
Crew. Oh, not again.
The again, imagine your a captain of a French ship during the Franco-Prussian War realising have familiar that Prussian ship is.
I always thought she sank on the way to Japan thanks for doing the research on this Drach!! well done
Well done! The CSA had many schemes, but even if they had come off, they were still woefully incapable of maintaining and supplying ships such as these.
And no one wanted Confed bucks.
Fun fact Kotetsu means steel, also anybody remember this ship from TW shogun 2 Fall of the samurai?
Ah, I remember this ship from Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai.
Seeing AI deployed a doom fleet filled to the limit with Kotetsu once in the Hard mode campaign. I was shocked for a while because it showed up on a front where only one of my fleets, consisted of just one Kotetsu Ironclad and five Kasuga Armored Corvettes (the second best non-ironclad steam ship.) standing in its way. Lost half of the Kasuga fighting that fleet, but I won.
In the campaign most of the time the player only need one Kotetsu for each fleet; Their gun out-ranged all other ships and forced the AI to attack the player, so the player can deploy the rest of their fleet in a perfect T-cross position waiting for the AI to sail into range one by one. Quite broken by the virtue of breaking the AI wide open and the reason for why I remember this ship, heh.
I only had one huge naval engagement and it was in a raging storm. 20+ships on each sides. 1 English and 1 American ironclad involved. It was epic.
Naval engagements in general felt kinda right in that game.
@@michimatsch5862 I set the fleet cap to the minimum (6 ships per fleet) in the campaign since vanilla Shogun 2. Never set it higher than that because back in vanilla the ship is an absolute hell to control and smaller map to move around. I get used to it so I never set it higher in FoTS.
I still love FotS and play it to this day lol, naval battles, especially when I can find any matches online, are quite fun! And don't forget the Kaiyo Maru frigate, add armor and it's a beast.
A absolut fine Dokumentation for what is most unknown.
I am new to your channel and find it fantastic. Thank to you, sir! I learn so much new knowledge and history everyday. This is wonderful, God bless!
Five minutes or five hours, you never know what Drach is going to serve up, but you know its going to be tasty.
Hey Drach, I don't know if you'll read this, but I honestly love your videos so much! Even though I'm a biology kid, I used to really into history when I was much younger. However, in high school, I think AP history killed my love for history. Your videos brought that passion back, and they always make my day. Thank you so much for your dedication and enthusiasm!
Floats like an Egyptian 🎵
I've seen pictures of this ship my whole life but never knew any of its history...thanks for that.
Always a bridesmaid, never a...
Damn, I'm obsolete before I've even seen an owner's hand at the wheel!
Note: For sale, barely used iron clad, 5 previous careful owners all of whom unfortunately lost. Tokugawa Shogonate: "Great... sounds like a winner! We will take it". Japanese Emperor (In full Gilbert and Sullivan mode): "Ah ha ha ha ha...!!"
Jules Verne would love the design. Shows what can be done on a smaller tonnage. The confederacy needed these ships, but too late for the demise in the land war.
USS KITTYHAWK AKV-1 was the ship my dad was on in WWII,it was a transport ship and the first AKV of the class.
I love this ship! It has the most tangled fascinating history.
US Navy 1865: At last, a Confederate ship! Our battle will be legendary.
Umm, we left our guns on shore. Gosh darn it!
The confederates get a battle ship...3 days before they stop fighting.. Could say the north dodged a bullet.
The big battle was Kearsarge vs. Alabama off the coast of France. Of course Mobile Bay was interesting too. Hampton Rhoads more or less a tactical Confed victory.
I love how crazy it's history is before it even got into combat.
Fascinating little ships. Interesting attempt at technical leap frogging.
One of the ships that saved Total War naval battles in Fall of the Samurai Shogun 2.
if you've ever played Total War; Shogun, Fall of the Samurai, this is one of the ships you can get (alongside foreign ironclads you can hire/buy like USS Roanoke and, ironically, HMS Warrior). It alway s used to irk me that the thing had nine guns: basically one stuck in every gun-port. whether this was intentional or not, though, she was only able to really fire two guns on any bearing--I think there might have been one very limited arc where you could get three to fire, but beyond that, it was two. she did also have her gatling, which was a nice touch and a surprise to me the first time I saw it raking a shogunate warship as she passed.
Oh, and of course, it can ram. because Tenno Heika Banzai
Drachinifel, Thank you.
Good to know about this little ship 😊
She must be close to the most traded warship ever 😆
I did not know(or forgot) that it had two screws. Really unusual for that period. Would have been problematic for the USN if it had arrived earlier.
You could say it would of screwed up the blockade.
Most likely a commerce raider. Alabama lost the one fight it had with the Union Navy. So did all the Confed ironclads.
I love building these in Total War: Fall of the Samurai
An ancestor of mine was supposed to be the CS captain of the "Stonewall" had it made it to CS hands.James Simms had been 2nd in command on the Virginiaat the time of the Monitor debut battle.
An oddball journey for a ship, once again involving the Japanese. Coincidence? Possibly. Amusing? Absolutely.
I think at the time Japan was into a western buying spree. Trying to catch up with modern technology.
@@Eclispestar Aye. British, French, German, American... they bought up stuff from a lot of places.
(though a certain French AA Gun proved more of a curse than anything else 😆)
Fascinating story, I'd never heard of this ship. Thanks, Drach.
"Stærkodder".
Nordic mythical hero of enormous strengh and dubiouse moral.
With his head chopped of in battle, his body wanted to continue fighting.
Wow! Talk about convoluted. What an odyssey. Thanks!
You might need to do a video on the very interesting “naval” event of the republic of Texas Horse Marines.
For Sale: One naval ironclad,internationally recognized, yet to see combat: Six previous owners, being able to read Egyptian a bonus, as that's what the manual is written in. Please enquire at the Spanish...American....Shogun...IMPERIAL Japanese Navy.
WOW, amazing story of this ships that mostly fail to serve for the original owners or wars they were supposed to serve.
11 knots! dayum son thats actually pritty damn fast for a 19th century ironclad.
Ah yes, Kotetsu
The bain of all Shogun 2 FoTS auto-resolve
I'm just going to call this one the CSS/USS/IJN Musical Chairs
Love this ship in Total war game FOTS. Big gun has better range than most. Cruise to range than steam backwards until HE burns up the enemy. If they manage to get a broadside off, it either hits the frontal armor or misses entirely. The Gatling guns are awesome if you want to capture a damaged ship.
This ship has changed hands more times than HMS Agincourt!
For those who enjoy alternate history scifi, a class based on this little boat features in the Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson
Thank you for this history of CSS Stonewall.
I was'nt aware of the French ships just the British. I thought the name was CSS Jackson which was delivered to the confeds but I think the war ended. The union had spies in England watching for this stuff. Love the bows of these ships. Wish I had one on the lake, make believers of the drunken road hogs.
Love these reviews of obscure ships i had no idea about
From the Confederacy to Japan. That's quite an interesting combination.
Started playing Shogun 2 Fall of the samurai and this popped up just in time!
Hurray! Washington Navy Yard got a shout out in this odessy.
The Sphinx/Stærkodder/Stonewall/Kotetsu/Azuma has a real Jules Verne vibe.
I wrote my final paper in the history of sea power on this ship and it’s unique situation!!!
Funnel: Taste my wrath, mere sails!
The between age of sail and steam must of been a weird one for many sailors.
@@Eclispestar Especially if your job happened to be manning the sails while under steam.
@Victoria I bet being in the watch basket up high in some weather must of been awful.
Cap: Look out what do you see?
Lookout: nothing cap we are surrounded by black storm clouds. Air tastes like brimstone. We must of fallen of the flat earth into hell.
Always so much info in your video you do nice work thanks
I like the tank museum christmas ad i had
Very interesting, thank you for posting!
Saw the thumbnail and I thought someone was pulling my leg.
Wow... this was possible to dig out, only 4 Drachinifel existing.
Holy frack😆👀
This ships history is like listening to a very long prolonged joke. 🤣🤣🤣
Love it♥️😎👏👏👏
The Japanese reconfiguration sounded far more useful, at least in closer quarter combat like that. I think that's the first time I can remember hearing of a ship using a Gatling gun, I usually hear about it in army settings.
I imagine ships full of samurai going hurry up we need to get into a melee battle on that ship over there.
The captain saying something like they have cannons. And the samurai not caring and then having a Tom Cruise moment.
@@Eclispestar Shogunate forces had cannons and rifles too, but when enemy has ironclad and you don't, boarding is only viable option.
They must have had shell guns by then not muzzle loaders.
@@Eclispestar In Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai my main why of boarding a vessel is to flank them with 2 Kotetsu-class ships and turn and just let the gatling guns rip.
Afterwards I usually have a new ship for my fleet and the Kotetsu can usually survive the volleys of the enemy ship.
It's amazing seeing katana and rifle wielding men getting mowed down by such a murderous crossfire.
Just Crazy the moves this thing made
Could of been a ship to steam around the world. Ask the old iron clads used in the civil war to do that...
so when the music stops...whoever is left standing buys the ironclad
i like these Shogun 2 Total war episodes
2:40 Interesting to see that you used the Danish plan for the ship
More videos on ironclads like these? I’m also interested in wood bottom ironclads, I think I have a general understanding of them but why not hear it from the man I can listen to for hours and still be interested.
A Barbette is the correct term for a non moving, armored gun position with limited view or otherwise restricted field of fire
I _may_ have written a large part of this ship’s Wikipedia page back in 2011 - specifically the parts that cite Case and Spencer.
Eternally in your gratitude 🙏
That would make for an interesting movie.
The Battle of Myoko Bay and Kotentsu cleaning her own decks.
Turret in this case would not be a misnomer, as our modern understanding and usage of the word might suggest. The word turret is borrowed from medieval castle architecture. A turret was an offset structure from a central tower, mostly circular and with slits or ports to fire from, and much like the ironclads, they did not rotate.
If anyone is interested Kotetsu makes an appearance in anime "Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto" episodes 21-22.