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    The two British Devastation-class battleships of the 1870s, HMS Devastation and HMS Thunderer, were the first class of ocean-going capital ship that did...
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    development of the 1876 ironclad Redoutable. The class consisted of Dévastation and Courbet. The Dévastation-class ironclads were authorized under the...
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    The Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries were built for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications during the Crimean War. France had intended...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad floating battery Lave
    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...
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  • France built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Devastation (1871)
    HMS Devastation was the first of two Devastation-class mastless turret ships built for the Royal Navy. This was the first class of ocean-going capital...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Dévastation
    The Dévastation was an Dévastation-class ironclad battleship of the French Navy of central battery (casemate) design. She was used as a school ship for...
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    The British Royal Navy's ironclad Admiral-class battleships of the 1880s followed the pattern of the Devastation class in having the main armament on...
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    HMS Thunderer (1872) (category Devastation-class ironclads)
    HMS Thunderer was one of two Devastation-class ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. She suffered two serious accidents before the...
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  • a Devastation-class ironclad - the world's first mastless battleships - launched in 1872 and sold in 1909 HMS Thunderer (1911) was an Orion-class battleship...
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    Edward Reed, as an improved and enlarged version of the preceding Devastation-class ironclad turret ships. The ship was laid down, fully framed and partially...
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    experimental ironclad warships that had recently arrived from France. These, the first three ironclad batteries of the Dévastation class—Lave, Dévastation, and...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Courbet
    Courbet was an Dévastation-class ironclad central battery battleship of the French Navy. The Dévastation class were authorized under the naval construction...
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    battleships', starting with the Devastation class. These 'breastwork monitors' were markedly different from the other high-seas ironclads of the period and were...
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    (1870) central-battery ironclad — Named Fisgard IV 1906-1931; sold for BU 1946 Devastation-class mastless turret-ship Devastation (1871) - Sold for BU 1908...
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  • Thumbnail for Aetna-class ironclad floating battery
    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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    batteries, and their designs were thus based on the France's Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery which had earned recognition at the Battle of...
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    building material. She was preceded by the Colbert-class ironclads and was succeeded by Dévastation-class. Compared to iron, steel allowed for greater structural...
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    Condor-class sloops Conqueror-class monitors Cressy-class cruisers Cyclops-class monitors Devastation-class ironclads Devonshire-class cruisers Diadem-class...
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    remained with the 1st Division, 1st Squadron along with Courbet and the ironclad Dévastation. The maneuvers lasted until 11 July. The ship remained in service...
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    Italian fleet, which had begun work on the very large ironclads of the Duilio and Italia classes in the early 1870s. The Italian vessels, armed with 45 cm...
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  • Cherbourg Dévastation Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery For French Navy. 17 April  United Kingdom Messrs. Mare & Co. Blackwall Meteor Aetna-class ironclad...
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    Huáscar is an ironclad turret ship owned by the Chilean Navy built in 1865 for the Peruvian government. It is named after the 16th-century Inca emperor...
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    warships had ended,[citation needed] with HMS Devastation commissioned in 1871. Devastation was the first class of ocean-going battleships that did not carry...
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    HMS Warrior (1860) (category Warrior-class ironclads)
    the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated...
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    ironclad rams D-class destroyers Daring-class destroyers Devastation-class ironclads Dryad-class torpedo gunboats E and F-class destroyers Fly-class gunboats...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Marceau
    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...
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    was an ironclad barbette ship of the French Navy built in the 1880s and early 1890s. She was the third and final member of the Marceau class. The Marceau...
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  • List of ironclads List of battlecruisers List of battleships of World War I List of battleships of World War II List of battleship classes Gardiner,...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Caïman
    was an ironclad barbette ship built for the French Navy in the late 1870s and early 1880s. She was the third of four ships of the Terrible class, built...
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