During the American Civil War as what were the battleships Monitor and Merrimac classed ?
Australia and the American Civil War 17, 1865. Another letter of sympathy came from the town of Geelong in Victoria, addressed to "Mrs. Lincoln, Washington, America" dated August 22, 1865. The residents of Melbourne, realising they were vulnerable to attack by others, especially the Russians due to the events during the war, hurried to build coastal defence forts. This included the government of Victoria requesting an ironclad ship to be sent to protect the colony, after the values of ironclads were demonstrated during the American Civil War's Battle of Hampton Roads. The monitor HMVS "Cerberus" was constructed during the late 1860s, and duly arrived in Victoria
Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel warships which engaged in the famous Battle of Hampton Roads on March 8–9, 1862, during the US Civil War. The battle took place between the USS "Monitor" and the CSS "Virginia". The latter ship had been rebuilt from the wreck of the USS "Merrimack". The site of the battle was within 1 mile (1.6 km) of the bridge–tunnel structure named by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a memorial. Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel (MMMBT) is the 4.6 mile-long (7.4 km) Hampton Roads crossing for Interstate 664 in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States. It is a