So, How's Your Hearing After "Bang-Clang" Day?

This past Saturday, March 9, marked the 157th anniversary of the second day of the Battle of Hampton Roads, also known as the Battle of the Ironclads or Battle Between the Monitor and Merrimac(k) (Virginia).  It was the day the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia clashed, the first time two ironclad ships had ever fought each other/

You can only imagine the noise inside the Monitor's turret or the casemate of the Virginia.  That as well as the smoke, the smells and those horrible clangs whenever a cannonball or shell struck home.  What had to be going through the minds of both crews?

This day marked the end of wooden navies everywhere.  It was also a major change in naval architecture as ships after that came to resemble variations of the Monitor.

A Lot of Innovation With That Ship.

Did You Say Something.  --Old B-Runner