During the second british-american war of 1812, this "fleet" was no match for the mighty Royal navy. Navy was born from a few ships built just after the American revolution, and still revered, like the famous frigates of the constitution class. A blocus, to deprive any exports from the Confederacy was a safe option, and indeed proved to be not a war winning strategy, but a crucial element to help achieve the Union's goal. On paper, naval superiority of the Union was just overwhelming. The Union fleet through the territorial distribution of the states at war, and compared to the Confederacy, had the bulk of the industrial power of the continent, as well as major ports and arsenals of the East Coast. The Battle of Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimack, the first clash of ironclads in history. But rather we will try here to show the main classes and most important ship, of military or historical value, and the events they were involved in. The goal of this chapter is not to portray every single ship featured during the American Civil War (1861-1865), on the union side - it would be useless and time consuming. THE UNION NAVY ("OLD NAVY") Ships studied Unadilla class gunboats (1861)
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