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IOTL the confederacy built the CSS Virginia to break the Union blockade of southern ports. In this way the ship was deficient as she was horribly unseaworthy. But what if they remade the former USS Merimac into a broadside ship along the lines of HMS Warrior or the USS New Ironies.
What role would this new design play in the Confederate navy? Could she have had a use breaking the blockade? And what would happen to the Monitor if the two ships met in a Hampton rodeos style of combat.
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