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A number of ironclads have been preserved or reconstructed as museum ships.

  • Parts of USS Monitor have been recovered and are being conserved and displayed at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia
  • HMS Warrior is today a fully restored museum ship in Portsmouth, England.
  • Huáscar is berthed at the port of Talcahuano, Chile, on display for visitors.
  • The City class ironclad USS Cairo is currently on display in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
  • Northrop Grumman in Newport News constructed a full-scale replica of USS Monitor. The replica was laid down in February 2005 and completed just two months later.
  • The Dutch Ramtorenschip (Coastal ram) Zr. Ms. Buffel is currently under display in the Maritime Museum Rotterdam.
  • The Dutch Ramtorenschip (Coastal ram) Zr. Ms. Schorpioen is a museum ship at Den Helder.
  • The complete, recovered wooden hull of the CSS Neuse, a casemate ram ironclad, is on view in Kinston, North Carolina, and, in another part of town on the Neuse River, the recreated ship, named CSS Neuse II, is nearly built and can be visited.
  • The hull of the casemate ironclad CSS Jackson can be seen in the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus, Georgia.
  • The new United States Navy Zumwalt class guided missile destroyer has been described as bearing resemblance to ironclads.

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