The CSS Virginia was a Confederate casemate ironclad. On March 8th 1862 she fought and destroyed several union wooden ships in Hampton Roads. The following day she found herself up against the Union turreted Ironclad USS Monitor. They then fought the first battle between ironclad warships with an inconclusive result. CSS Virginia was eventually scuttled by the Confederacy because her draught was too great to escape from advancing Union forces.
This model of the CSS Virginia is a 1/600 scale Confederate casemate Ironclad.
She had 2 × 7- inch (178 mm) Brooke rifles, 2 × 6.4-inch (160 mm) Brooke rifles and 6 × 9-inch (229 mm) Dahlgren smoothbores. She was 275’ long x 51’2” in beam, displaced about 4000 long tons, had a maximum speed of about 4-5 kts and about 320 officers and men as crew.