CSS Stonewall/Kōtetsu, (甲鉄, literally “Ironclad”)
CSS Stonewall/Kōtetsu, (甲鉄, literally “Ironclad”), later renamed Azuma (東, “East”), was the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Built in Bordeaux, France in 1864 for the Confederate States Navy as CSS Stonewall, and acquired from the United States in February 1869, she was an ironclad ram warship. She had a decisive role in the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay in May 1869, which…
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