QUESTION What was Britain's first steam-powered ship? In 1794 ... He subsequently built the Demologos, the first warship propelled by a steam engine. She was a wooden floating battery built ...

On March 8, 1862, the Virginia destroyed two Union ships outside the harbor near Norfolk, Va. But by the next day, there was a new ship in sight, the Monitor: the first all steam-powered warship ...

Practical steam power was first developed in the 1700s and first adapted to boats after 1800. The early steam engines found on ships were crude, inefficient, and underpowered but provided a huge ...

To build their first ironclad warship ... The Confederacy rebuilt it as an armored, steam-powered warship and rechristened it the CSS Virginia. It wasn’t long before the Union got wind of ...