Weekly Photo - USS New Ironsides (Patreon)

One of three ships ordered as a an emergency response to the construction of CSS Virginia, the armoured frigate USS New Ironsides was the only one that ticked the boxes of both well protected and seaworthy in anything outside a mild breeze. Although still small and shallow draught due to the nature of her operational environment compared to the big European ironclads, she would be the largest American ironclad warship built for some time.

This picture is of an original by Oscar Parkes, he did about a dozen pencil and charcoal drawings of various American Civil War era ships and black and white scans can be found online, but since I own the originals you guys are the only ones who get to see them in their original colours. (Also available as posters via Etsy!)