of the Boshin War, and the complete establishment of the Meiji Restoration. The IJN continued to develop its strength and commissioned a number of warships from British and European shipyards, first ironclads and later armored cruisers. These ships engaged the Chinese Beiyang fleet which was superior on paper at least at the Battle of the Yalu River. Thanks to superior short-range firepower, the Japanese fleet came off better, sinking or severely damaging eight ships and receiving serious damage to only four. The naval war was concluded the next year at the Battle of Weihaiwei, where the strongest remaining Chinese ships were surrendered to the Japanese. End of the ironclad warship There is no clearly defined end to the ironclad, besides the transition from wood hulls to all-metal. Ironclads continued to be used in World War I. Towards the end of the 19th century, the descriptions 'battleship' and 'armored cruiser' came to replace the term 'ironclad'. The proliferation of ironclad battleship designs came to an end in the 1890s as navies reached a consensus on the design of battleships, producing the type known as the pre-dreadnought. These ships are sometimes covered in treatments of the ironclad warship. The next evolution of battleship design, the dreadnought, is never referred to as an 'ironclad'. Legacy H. G. Wells coined the term The Land Ironclads in a short story published in 1903, to describe fictional large armored fighting vehicles moving on pedrail wheels. A number of ironclads have been preserved or reconstructed as museum ships. Parts of have been recovered and are being conserved and displayed at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia. is today a fully restored museum ship in Portsmouth, England is berthed at the port of Talcahuano, Chile, on display for visitors. The is currently on display in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Northrop Grumman in Newport News constructed a full-scale replica of . The replica was laid down in February 2005 and completed just two months later. The Dutch Ramtorenschip (coastal ram) is currently under display in the Maritime Museum Rotterdam. The Dutch Ramtorenschip (coastal ram) is a museum ship at Den Helder. The complete, recovered wooden hull of , a casemate ram ironclad, is on view in Kinston, North Carolina, and, in another part of town on the Neuse River, the recreated ship, named CSS Neuse II, is nearly built and can be visited. The hull of the casemate ironclad can