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    The Aetna-class ironclad floating batteries were built during the Crimean War for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications. Britain and France each...
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  • breakwater in 1830. The second HMS Glatton (1855) was an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864. The third HMS Glatton (1871)...
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  • HMS Meteor (1855) was an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1861. HMS Meteor (1914) was an Thornycroft M-class destroyer launched...
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  • developed by China and Pakistan HMS Thunder (1855), an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery HMS Thunder, a list of other so named Royal Navy ships USS...
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  • 1847 to all surviving claimants. HMS Trusty (1855) was an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864 HMS Trusty (1866)...
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  • was broken up on the riverbank. HMS Aetna (1856) was a 16-gun lengthened Aetna-class screw ironclad floating battery launched in 1856. She was used for...
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    the Aetna-class ironclad floating batteries, although these had little impact on the war. Most notably the 68-pounder was fitted to the Warrior-class ironclads...
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    the Crimean War. During this time he was loaned to the Aetna-class ironclad floating battery Glatton under the command of Captain Arthur Cumming. Glatton...
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  • "(advertisement)". The Times. No. 22182. London. 11 October 1855. col C, p. 1. "Floating Arsenal". Morning Chronicle. No. 27645. London. 3 August 1855. E. J. Reed...
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  • Preston Chronicle. No. 2278. Preston. 26 April 1856. "Launch of a Floating Battery on the Thames". The Times. No. 22350. London. 24 April 1856. col A...
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    guns Ironclad floating batteries total 5 1. Aetna-class HMS Glatton 16 guns 2. Aetna-class HMS Meteor 16 guns 3. Aetna-class HMS Aetna 16 guns 4. Aetna-class...
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