The central battery ship, also known as a centre battery ship in the United Kingdom and as a casemate ship in European continental navies, was a development...

Almirante Cochrane was a central battery ship of the Chilean Navy in the late nineteenth century. She was built, like her twin, Blanco Encalada, in the...

box battery is a disposition of the main armament in a battleship, commonly used in ships built in the latter half of the 19th century. A box battery consists...

barbettes to partially protect the ship's main battery guns, rather than heavy gun turrets or inflexible box batteries. Following the introduction of ironclad...

War. Central battery ship in European continental navies, was a development of the (high-freeboard) broadside ironclad of the 1870s Turret ship was a...

Station in September 1886: in this position, his flagship was the central battery ship HMS Bellerophon, in September 1886. Lyons was promoted to admiral...

converted into a central battery ship during construction, armed with a much more powerful battery of eighteen 10-inch guns. Neither ship had an eventful...

Redoutable was a central battery and barbette ship of the French Navy. She was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material...

a list of ships SMS Mars (1879), a German gunnery training ship SMS Tegetthoff (1878) or SMS Mars, an Austro-Hungarian central battery ship Swedish warship...

This list includes all naval ships which have been in service of the Spanish Navy. Dédalo-class seaplane tender (1) Dédalo (1922–1940) (ex-Neuenfelds...

"Casemate ship" was an alternative term for "central battery ship" (UK) or "center battery ship" (US). The casemate (or central battery) was an armored...

October 1881. She was armed with a main battery of six 28 cm (11 in) guns mounted in a central-battery. The ship had a limited career, and did not see action...

Blanco Encalada was a central battery ship built by Earle's Shipbuilding Co. in England for the Chilean Navy in 1875. She was nicknamed El Blanco. She...

mile of heavy artillery batteries atop a low cliff. The channel was only 200 yards wide, and ran within easy range of the batteries; a heavy chain boom could...

mastless turret-ship — Sold for BU 1909 Alexandra (1875) central-battery ironclad — Sold for BU 1908 Temeraire (1876) central-battery ironclad with barbettes —...

built by Austria-Hungary since the central battery ship Tegetthoff in 1876. The class was composed of three ships: Habsburg, Árpád, and Babenberg. They...

1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during the Crimean War, which presaged Gloire, the first sea-going...

tactical asymmetric warfare. In response, navies operating large ships introduced firstly batteries of small-calibre quick-firing guns on board large warships...

against the battery CSS Virginia, announced this trend. The philosophy of the gunport survived for a time with the central battery ship and the casemates...

completed for the Ottomans. She was a central battery ship, mounting most of her armament in a central casemate. The ship, built by the Ottoman Imperial Arsenal...

in 2004 (see below). Ships named for Tegetthoff included: The arctic research ship SMS Tegetthoff (1872). The central battery ship SMS Tegetthoff (1878)...

in some sources. See box battery and central battery ship Ericsson later admitted that this was a serious flaw in the ship's design and that the pilot...

Monarch (1868) – masted turret-ship Captain class – masted turret-ship Captain (1869) – sank 1870 Audacious-class central-battery ironclads Audacious (1869)...

the fleet the following year. A central battery ship, she was armed with a battery of four 228 mm (9 in) guns in a central casemate, and was capable of a...

War. Herval was an iron-hulled, fully rigged central battery ship. It was 191 feet (58 m) long. The ship had a beam of 36 feet (11 m) and a maximum draft...

mountings, which offered increased fields of fire compared to earlier central battery ships, though they were less well protected. Amiral Duperré was ordered...

degrees and declination to 6.5 degrees. The name suggests use in a central battery ship. For broadside use, there was a 15 cm Rahmen-Lafette c/70 für eine...

York. After this, Höhnel was assigned as officer of the deck to the central battery ship SMS Tegetthoff, whose executive officer was Commander Anton Haus...

SMS Tegetthoff (1878), an Austro-Hungarian central battery ship, renamed Mars in 1912 This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If...

reciprocating steam engines which turned underwater screws. These ships distinctively carried a main battery of very heavy guns upon the weather deck, in large rotating...