The Floters Are What I Call a Floter Boat

The Merrimack was a large steam and sail ship with 40 guns, so it's a big fucking ship. The Confederates took a look at the hull and said, let's put this ship back together and kill some northerners. This is exactly like robo cop, but with a boat. They created a floating battery. It took them about a year to finish the rebuilding because most of the quality iron workers were from the north and the south was just farmers.