The Swiftsure class was a group of two British pre-dreadnought battleships. Originally ordered by Chile as the Constitución class during a period of high...
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The Swiftsure class battleships of the late Victorian era were broadside ironclads designed and built specifically for service as Flagships on the Pacific...
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ship of the class was cancelled due to financial pressures arising from the purchase of the Swiftsure-class battleships. The Lord Nelson-class ships had...
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Prince Consort-class armoured frigate. HMS Triumph (1870) was a Swiftsure-class battleship launched in 1870. She was renamed HMS Tenedos in 1904, being used...
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HMS Swiftsure was the lead ship of the Swiftsure class battleships built in the late Victorian era. Her sister-ship was HMS Triumph. She was commissioned...
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Navy bought two Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleships that were being built for Chile, and Argentina sold its two Rivadavia-class armored cruisers...
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HMS Swiftsure, originally known as Constitución, was the lead ship of the Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleships. The ship was ordered by the Chilean...
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HMS Triumph (1870) (category Swiftsure-class ironclads)
broadside ironclad battleship of the Victorian era, the sister-ship of HMS Swiftsure. These two ships comprise the Swiftsure class of 1870. The two sister-ships...
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the lead ship of her class of ironclad battleships. HMS Swiftsure (1903), the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships. She served in the Mediterranean...
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Two Minas Geraes-class battleships were built for the Brazilian Navy in the early twentieth century. Named Minas Geraes and São Paulo, these "dreadnought"...
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HMS Triumph (1903) (redirect from Chilean battleship Libertad (1903))
originally known as Libertad, was the second of the two Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy. The ship was ordered by the Chilean...
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List of battlecruisers List of battleships of World War I List of battleships of World War II List of battleship classes Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger;...
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speeds came to be associated with second-class designs such as the Renown of 1895 (18 knots) and the Swiftsure and Triumph of 1903 (20 knots). In these...
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frigate Peacock-class corvette Resolution-class submarine HMS Dreadnought (S101) Valiant-class submarine Churchill-class submarine Swiftsure-class submarine...
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the class were broken up in the early 1920s. The two Swiftsure-class ships mark a significant departure from the other pre-dreadnought battleships built...
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Argentine–Chilean naval arms race (category Battleships)
with Chile's battleships becoming the Swiftsure class, and Japan, with Argentina's final two armored cruisers becoming the Kasuga class. The two planned...
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is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class. Named after Mount Mikasa...
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was scrapped in 1961. List of ship classes of the Second World War The same was fitted to HMS Superb and Swiftsure[citation needed] In addition to HMS...
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Crown Colony) class When Minotaur was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed Ontario, the class was known as the Swiftsure class after the first...
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The Russian battleship Potemkin (Russian: Князь Потёмкин Таврический, romanized: Kniaz Potyomkin Tavricheskiy, "Prince Potemkin of Taurida") was a pre-dreadnought...
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USS Texas (BB-35) (redirect from Battleship TEXAS)
a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York-class battleship. She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914...
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of the class, Orion, was cancelled due to financial pressures arising from the purchase of the Swiftsure-class battleships. The Minotaur class displaced...
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Ironclad warship (redirect from Ironclad battleship)
Galissonnière classes as small, long-range ironclads as overseas cruisers and the British had responded with ships like HMS Swiftsure of 1870. The Russian...
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Centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil HMS Swiftsure – Laid up in Rosyth Dockyard, United Kingdom See here for every U-class submarine built in Barrow-in-Furness...
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dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy. Named in honor of the state of Minas Gerais, the ship was laid down in April 1907 as the lead ship of its class, making...
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cruiser launched in 1943 and sold in 1960. HMS Superb (S109) was a Swiftsure-class nuclear-powered hunter killer submarine launched in 1974, and decommissioned...
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The King Edward VII class was a class of eight pre-dreadnought battleships launched by the Royal Navy between 1903 and 1905. The class comprised King Edward...
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guns reserved for the recently sunk pre-dreadnought battleship Triumph, M26 received one of Swiftsure's spare guns. M27 received 6-inch (M27) guns. M21 and...
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broken up in 1806. HMS Irresistible was a prison ship, launched as HMS Swiftsure in 1787. She was captured by the French in 1801, and recaptured in the...
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April 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive. "Last of the A3: sunk by battleship's guns". The Evening News. Vol. XXXVII, no. 10, 826. Portsmouth. 18 May...
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