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During the Civil War, the Confederates contracted for several ironclad warships to be built in Britain and France. In OTL, these vessels were all seized as a result of protests by the U.S. government, and only one of them ever saw service as a Confederate vessel. These were...

--Two turreted ironclad rams built by Laird Brothers in Birkenhead, England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Scorpion_(1863)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Wivern_(1863)

--Two other ironclad rams built by Arman Brothers in France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Kōtetsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Prinz_Adalbert_(1865)

--An Ironclad Frigate, built in Scotland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danmark_(armoured_frigate)

Now, lets assume that somehow...the how and why are not important to the scenario...the ships are all completed by early June 1864, the Confederates persuade Britain and France to release the ships into their hands, and they have them equipped and ready to sail by mid-July 1864. The Confederate fleet is placed under the command of Raphael Semmes, and sent to Mobile Bay. It arrives off Mobile Bay on August 3, in time to intervene in the Battle of Mobile Bay, where it is supported by the ironclad ram C.S.S. Tennessee and some wooden Confederate gunboats, as well as by the fire of Forts Morgan and Gaines.

It, of course, encounters a mixed Union fleet of wooden warships and ironclad monitors commanded by David G. Farragut. The battle takes place in the Gulf of Mexico, just outside the waters of the Bay itself. So no torpedos to worry about.

Who wins, and why?
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