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...
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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...
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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...
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Chinese ironclad Zhenyuan (redirect from Chinese turret ship Chenyuan)
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...
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Chinese ironclad Dingyuan (redirect from Chinese turret ship Tingyuan)
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...
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HMS Captain (1869) (category Ships built on the River Mersey)
steam propulsion, and the main battery mounted in rotating armoured turrets, the ship was, at first appearance, quite innovative and formidable. However...
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layout Turret (superstructure), an element in the design of turret deck ships Turret (toolholder), an indexable holder of multiple tools Turret lathe,...
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HMS Royal Sovereign (1857) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
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...
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HMS Dreadnought (1875) (category Ships built in Pembroke Dock)
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...
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HMS Wivern (1863) (category Ships built on the River Mersey)
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...
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Abyssinia (1870) (India) – turret-ship Glatton (1871) – turret-ship Hotspur (1870) – turret-ship Rupert (1872) – turret-ship, sold for breaking 1907 Belleisle-class...
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Monitor (warship) (redirect from Monitor (ship))
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...
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Ironclad warship (redirect from Ironclad ship)
that turrets were extremely heavy. Ericsson was able to offer the heaviest possible turret (guns and armor protection) by deliberately designing a ship with...
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Huáscar (ironclad) (redirect from Huascar (ship))
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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List of ironclads (category Lists of 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...
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List of ironclads of the Royal Navy (category Lists of Royal Navy ships by type)
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...
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Cowper Phipps Coles (section Turret ship designer)
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...
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they can be considered as reduced versions of battleships, coastal defence ships (sometimes also referred to as coastal defence battleships) are included...
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Naval artillery (section Gun turrets)
work. An ironclad turret ship designed by Edward James Reed, it was equipped with revolving turrets that used pioneering hydraulic turret machinery to maneouvre...
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HMS Devastation (1871) (category Ships built in Portsmouth)
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...
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Warship (redirect from Combatant ship)
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...
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Cerberus-class monitor (redirect from Cerberus class turret ship)
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...
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Devastation-class ironclad (redirect from Devastation Turret Class Ship)
(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...
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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...
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Russian ironclad Petr Veliky (category 1872 ships)
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...
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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...
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Dido-class cruiser (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
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...
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Dreadnought (category Ship types)
guns to a turret. One solution to the problem of turret layout was to put three or even four guns in each turret. Fewer turrets meant the ship could be...
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HMS Glatton (category Royal Navy ship names)
HMS Glatton (1871) was a turret ship launched in 1871 and sold 1903. The fourth HMS Glatton (1914) was a coast defence ship, originally the Norwegian...
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