Age of Sail Close — Steam, Iron, and Shell

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A fleet of ships of the line in line-ahead.

Overview

The close is already on Age of Sail — Era Overview. The era ended with the defeat of Napoleon and the technological transitions of the early industrial revolution — steam power, iron hulls, and shell-firing guns.¹

The Close

This note covers that close only. Napoleonic Wars — Overview stays queued. A land survey stays off. Royal Navy steam advocacy is on Steam Warships — Hardy 1830–1834.

The era overview already names Demologos — First Steam Warship launched in 1814 as a sign the sail era was already ending. That American vessel is not this close-of-era sentence, and it is not a named Royal Navy steam ship.²

Sources

• @white2005nelson
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Era_Context
• Modern_Index

Same Subject

• Age of Sail — Era Overview
• Age of Sail — Chronological Timeline
• Steam Warships — Hardy 1830–1834
• First Naval Lord — Hardy 1830–1834

Cross-Domain

• Royal Navy — Institutional Overview
• Line of Battle — Naval Tactic

Footnotes

1. Ended with the defeat of Napoleon and the technological transitions of the early industrial revolution — steam power, iron hulls, and shell-firing guns: Age of Sail — Era Overview. ↩

2. Demologos 1814 already named on the same era overview. Do not invent a named Royal Navy steam ship, horsepower, or paddle versus screw. Do not write a Napoleonic land survey or the queued wars overview. ↩