@LunarEclipseSP Monitor is a type of warship (the same way how "destroyer", "battleship", "aircraft carrier" etc are also warship types), that has disproportionately large guns (they also often have low freeboards and low drafts). A sub-category of this is the river monitor, which has even lower draft to be able to traverse rivers.

Ironclads are early steam powered ships with iron armour, built mostly in the second half of the 19th century. Later ships that were started to be built by the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century were not called ironclads anymore to signify that they have been more advanced than their predecessors.

A ship can be both a monitor and an ironclad (such is the case for USS Monitor, or SMS Leitha, the latter is a river-monitor to be specific) but they are not necessarily connected. HMS Warrior is an ironclad but not a monitor, whereas HMS Erebus is a monitor but not an ironclad, just to mention a few examples.

@BMilan Oh I see... It's sounds like Monitor-class or the ship is classified as Monitor ship just like that?

@LunarEclipseSP Yes, USS Monitor was an ironclad and it is the namesake of the "monitor" type ships. But monitor type ships have continued to be built beyond the era of ironclads, that's why not all of them are ironclads

@BMilan Ain't the USS Monitor is an Ironclad? They said...

@LunarEclipseSP This is not an ironclad though 😅 It looks like a much later design monitor, especially with the design of the turret (which strongly reminds me of WW2 Japanese destroyer turrets) and the modern looking superstructure. Not all river monitors are ironclads, some of them were built and used even during the vietnam war which was much later than the ironclad era (some more modern monitors are even in service to this day in some navies)

@Boeing727200F Yeah, I made it low so the turret can shoot in any direction (360°).

@WilosIndomie I mean this?

@ShadowHeavyIndustry Damn 🗿

@Graingy Actually, I put the platform in front so it’s easier to see without having to make the Battery tower taller.

@Boeing727200F Nope, the gun battery won’t shoot the Hull unless the target’s range is at a Depression. :v

@Boeing727200F Vibrates nervously

I'm familiar with the concept of a monitor, but this one's design is surely the most singular I've seen...

Ironclad... Yeah.

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HMS Marshal Hey, perhaps

pov: I slap a spare 15 cm battery from an old decommissioned ship onto a slapped together hull.

@BMilan you might like some Ironclads so I thought you would like to see this one.

Oh yes! Ironclad warship <3