Turret ships were a 19th-century type of warship, the earliest to have their guns mounted in a revolving gun turret, instead of a broadside arrangement...

turret deck ship is a type of merchant ship with an unusual hull, designed and built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The hulls of turret deck...

A gun turret (or simply turret) is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn and aim...

Sino-French War of 1884–1885. The ships were armed with a main battery of four 12 in (305 mm) guns in a pair of gun turrets, making them the most powerful...

Sino-French War of 1884–1885. The ships were armed with a main battery of four 12 in (305 mm) guns in a pair of gun turrets, making them the most powerful...

conversion into an experimental turret ship instigated by Captain Cowper Coles, who believed that a mastless ship armed with turret-mounted guns was the best...

steam propulsion, and the main battery mounted in rotating armoured turrets, the ship was, at first appearance, quite innovative and formidable. However...

layout Turret (superstructure), an element in the design of turret deck ships Turret (toolholder), an indexable holder of multiple tools Turret lathe,...

HMS Dreadnought was an ironclad turret ship built for the Royal Navy during the 1870s. Construction was halted less than a year after it began and she...

that turrets were extremely heavy. Ericsson was able to offer the heaviest possible turret (guns and armor protection) by deliberately designing a ship with...

construction of a turret ship. In January 1862, the Admiralty agreed to construct a ship, HMS Prince Albert, which had four turrets and a low freeboard...

as coastal ships. The term also encompassed more flexible breastwork monitors, and was sometimes used as a generic term for any turreted ship. In the early...

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...

turret-ship — Sold for BU 1903 Hotspur (1870) turret-ship — Sold for BU 1904 Glatton (1871) turret-ship — Sold for BU 1903 Cyclops-class turret-ships...

monitors and coastal defence ships). The various ironclads design such as the ram, broadside, central battery (or casemate), turret and barbette will be mentioned...

Abyssinia (1870) (India) – turret-ship Glatton (1871) – turret-ship Hotspur (1870) – turret-ship Rupert (1872) – turret-ship, sold for breaking 1907 Belleisle-class...

they can be considered as reduced versions of battleships, coastal defence ships (sometimes also referred to as coastal defence battleships) are included...

work. An ironclad turret ship designed by Edward James Reed, it was equipped with revolving turrets that used pioneering hydraulic turret machinery to maneouvre...

two Devastation-class mastless turret ships built for the Royal Navy. This was the first class of ocean-going capital ship that did not carry sails, and...

battleship, named for the USS Monitor Breastwork monitor, a type of turret ship with a raised superstructure and higher freeboard than the first monitors...

superstructure in the ship that did not extend all the way out to the sides of the ship. It was generally only used in ironclad turret ships designed between...

Central battery ship in European continental navies, was a development of the (high-freeboard) broadside ironclad of the 1870s Turret ship was a 19th-century...

turret ship built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1870s. Her engines and boilers were defective, but were not replaced until 1881. The ship made...

gun turrets. According to Ensign Dan Meyer, the officer in charge of the ship's Turret One, morale and operational readiness among the gun-turret crews...

Royal Navy in the 1860s. Also referred to as "ironclads" and "turret ships", the ships of the Cerberus class were designed by Sir Edward Reed following...

(fore turret) and two 12-inch RML 35-ton Mark I naval guns on sliding carriages (aft turret). The guns were housed in two round turrets shipped fore and...

The first HMS Wivern was an ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England. She was one of two sister ships secretly ordered from the John Laird Sons...

as a five-turret ship. She had the .5 in. MGs removed in October–November 1941 and received five 20 mm. Sirius was completed with five turrets and five...

was variously known as an armoured ram, steam ram and screw-powered turret ship for the defence of roadsteads (batterie à hélice et à tour pour la defense...

the Prussian Navy, later the Imperial German Navy. The vessel was a turret ship that was designed by the British Royal Navy Captain Cowper Coles and...