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 ...

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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 ...

The Battle of Hampton Roads began on this day in 1862 when the CSS Virginia, the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy, engaged a blockading Union squadron.

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 ...