THE FIRST IRONCLADS In Japanese: [1]Archived 2005-11-16 at the Wayback Machine. Also in English: [2]Archived 2019-11-17 at the Wayback Machine: "Ironclad ships, however, were not new to Japan and Hideyoshi; Oda Nobunaga, in fact, had many ironclad ships in his fleet." (referring to the anteriority of Japanese ironclads (1578) to the Korean Turtle ships (1592)). In Western sources, Japanese ironclads are described in CR Boxer "The Christian Century in Japan 1549–1650", p. 122, quoting the account of the Italian Jesuit Organtino visiting Japan in 1578. Nobunaga's ironclad fleet is also described in "A History of Japan, 1334–1615", Georges Samson, p. 309 ISBN0804705259. Admiral Yi Sun-sin invented Korea's "ironclad Turtle ships", first documented in 1592. Incidentally, Korea's iron plates only covered the roof (to prevent intrusion), and not the sides of their ships. The first Western ironclads date to 1859 with the French Gloire ("Steam, Steel and Shellfire").
THE FIRST IRONCLADS In Japanese: [1]Archived 2005-11-16 at the Wayback Machine. Also in English: [2]Archived 2019-11-17 at the Wayback Machine: "Ironclad ships, however, were not new to Japan and Hideyoshi; Oda Nobunaga, in fact, had many ironclad ships in his fleet." (referring to the anteriority of Japanese ironclads (1578) to the Korean Turtle ships (1592)). In Western sources, Japanese ironclads are described in CR Boxer "The Christian Century in Japan 1549–1650", p. 122, quoting the account of the Italian Jesuit Organtino visiting Japan in 1578. Nobunaga's ironclad fleet is also described in "A History of Japan, 1334–1615", Georges Samson, p. 309 ISBN0804705259. Admiral Yi Sun-sin invented Korea's "ironclad Turtle ships", first documented in 1592. Incidentally, Korea's iron plates only covered the roof (to prevent intrusion), and not the sides of their ships. The first Western ironclads date to 1859 with the French Gloire ("Steam, Steel and Shellfire").
THE FIRST IRONCLADS In Japanese: [1]Archived 2005-11-16 at the Wayback Machine. Also in English: [2]Archived 2019-11-17 at the Wayback Machine: "Ironclad ships, however, were not new to Japan and Hideyoshi; Oda Nobunaga, in fact, had many ironclad ships in his fleet." (referring to the anteriority of Japanese ironclads (1578) to the Korean Turtle ships (1592)). In Western sources, Japanese ironclads are described in CR Boxer "The Christian Century in Japan 1549–1650", p. 122, quoting the account of the Italian Jesuit Organtino visiting Japan in 1578. Nobunaga's ironclad fleet is also described in "A History of Japan, 1334–1615", Georges Samson, p. 309 ISBN0804705259. Admiral Yi Sun-sin invented Korea's "ironclad Turtle ships", first documented in 1592. Incidentally, Korea's iron plates only covered the roof (to prevent intrusion), and not the sides of their ships. The first Western ironclads date to 1859 with the French Gloire ("Steam, Steel and Shellfire").
