The arrival of ironclads did not make every wooden capital ship instantly irrelevant. The Austrian 92-gun Kaiser, launched in 1858, still performed useful service at the Battle of Lissa in 1866. Its place in a mixed fleet shows how transitional navies combined older hull forms with new armored vessels. Naval technology changed through overlap as well as replacement.
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The wooden Kaiser still mattered at Lissa
A brief example from the Battle of Lissa shows that a recently launched wooden ship of the line could remain useful during the transition to armored fleets.