France blocks delivery of the Bordeaux ironclads
1864, Bordeaux, France.
- Date
- 1864
- Where
- Bordeaux, France
- What happened
- Closed
- Event
- 94 of 174
A shipyard clerk gave the U.S. Minister in Paris papers showing Arman was working with Confederate agents. Under U.S. pressure Napoleon III blocked the sale, and Arman sold the rams and corvettes to Denmark and Prussia. Denmark later sold Sphinx to the Confederacy as CSS Stonewall.