This beautiful flower is part of the kingdom plantae, division Magnoliophyta, class Liliopsida, order Asparagales, family Iridaceae, and genus Iris. Because Iris is the messenger of love in Greeks myths the iris flower has many meanings, depending on its color. For example the blue iris symbolizes faith and hope, the purple iris wisdom and compliments and so on.
Ironclad warship. An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century.[1] The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells.
An ironclad is a ship protected by iron or steel armor plates. The first recorded use of an ironclad was during the Japanese invasion of Korea; the renowned Korean admiral Yi Soon Shin covered his turtle ships in iron, rendering those ironclads impervious to musketfire.Western use of ironclads began during the early part of the second half of the 19th century.The Western ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. The first Western ironclad battleship, Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in November 1859.any ironclads were built to make use of the ram or the torpedo, which a number of naval designers considered the important weapons of naval combat. There is no visible end to the ironclad period, but towards the end of the 1890s the term ironclad dropped out of use.