Top 3 Ironclads Quotes & Sayings

To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they were the start of an era.