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MONITOR
John Ericsson's USS Monitor was built in about 100 days and launched in January 1862. Her rotating turret held two 11-inch guns.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MERRIMACK
The Confederates raised the burned Union frigate USS Merrimack and rebuilt her in iron as CSS Virginia, though Northerners kept using the old name.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HUNLEY
The hand-cranked submarine H.L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic off Charleston on February 17, 1864, then vanished. She was raised from the water in 2000.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FARRAGUT
Admiral David Farragut led his fleet into Mobile Bay in August 1864, where he is remembered for the order to go ahead despite the mines then called torpedoes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Ironclads word search, free and printable with no sign-up. Two iron ships met at Hampton Roads in 1862, and wooden navies were finished.

About The Ironclads

On March 9, 1862, two odd-looking ships pounded each other for hours in Hampton Roads, Virginia, and neither one sank. Wooden navies had ruled the sea for centuries, and that morning's standoff made them obsolete. The sailors who served in these boats lived inside hot, cramped iron, with boilers below and cannon shot ringing off the plating.

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