PS: Regarding the USS Galena, I get the feeling she wasn't clad in enough steel (note the holes in, & the shot wedged into her hull in the photo).
Old Wombat musedQuotePS: Regarding the USS Galena, I get the feeling she wasn't clad in enough steel (note the holes in, & the shot wedged into her hull in the photo). Spot on, to my recollection - she was fairly thinly armored, even by the standards of the time. Her iron was eventually stripped, and she served the remainder of her career as an unarmored patrol vessel.