The Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries were built for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications during the Crimean War. France had intended...

The Aetna-class ironclad floating batteries were built during the Crimean War for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications. Britain and France each...

Tonnante was a Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery of the French Navy that served during the 19th century. The Dévastation class were designed...

Lave was an ironclad floating battery of the French Navy during the 19th century. She was part of the Dévastation class of floating batteries. In the 1850s...

The Palestro-class ironclad floating batteries were four floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859–1862 to replace the Crimean War-built vessels...

built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during the Crimean...

converted into floating batteries and posted for river and coastal waterway control. Here too, Civil War batteries and even ironclads such as the famed...

arguably marginal to the work of the navy. The brief success of the floating ironclad batteries convinced France to begin work on armored warships for their...

Sultan (1870) central-battery ironclad — Named Fisgard IV 1906-1931; sold for BU 1946 Devastation-class mastless turret-ship Devastation (1871) - Sold for...

"first-class battleship" and so forth. The pre-dreadnought battleships were the pre-eminent warships of their time and replaced the ironclad battleships...

two ships were initially conceived as armored floating batteries similar to the French Dévastation class that had proved so effective at the Battle of...

experimental ironclad warships that had recently arrived from France. These, the first three ironclad batteries of the Dévastation class—Lave, Dévastation, and...

central-battery ironclad (converted from Bulwark-class 2-decker) Research (1863) – central-battery ironclad Enterprise (1864) – central-battery ironclad Favorite...

Marceau was an ironclad barbette ship built for the French Navy during the 1880s, the lead ship of her class. She served in the Mediterranean Squadron...

"(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...

serve as armored floating batteries, and their designs were thus based on the France's Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery which had earned recognition...

ordered a prototype of Coles' design in 1859, which was installed in the floating battery vessel, HMS Trusty, for trials in 1861, becoming the first vessel to...

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

Crimean War by French armoured floating batteries, and tests against armour plates, showed the superiority of ironclads over unarmoured ships. France's...

withstand repeated hits without significant damage when French ironclad floating batteries defeated Russian coastal fortifications during the Battle of...

shells at the Battle of Sinop in 1853. Later in the war, French ironclad floating batteries used similar weapons against the defenses at the Battle of Kinburn...

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of Coles's patented design in 1859, which was installed in the ironclad floating battery, HMS Trusty, for trials in 1861, becoming the first warship to...

ordered a prototype of Coles' design in 1859, which was installed in the floating battery vessel, HMS Trusty, for trials in 1861, becoming the first warship...

warships. The armored platforms intended to become ironclads were employed instead as floating batteries for port city defense. Coulter, The Confederate...

only ordinary elongated shot, could cause little damage to the Chilean ironclads and Grau was killed in action. However, his flagship continued the fight...

iron-platted floating battery Dévastation gained international attention following its use during the Crimean War in October 1855. Dévastation signalled...

maritime disaster. In 1967, during the vietnam war, the USS Forrestal was floating on the water not too far from the Vietnamese coast. A Zuni rocket from...

Redoutable, Devastation, Courbet, Programme de 1872, pub Marines edition, ISBN 2-909675-16-5 pages 72 and 77. Ranft, Bryan (ed.), Ironclad to Trident,...

expedition as they study the wreckage of the Monitor, the Union's first ironclad ship during the American Civil War. The story is related with the background...