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...

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...

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...

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...

have taken little pride in the resulting ship. He himself wrote, in 1869 "no satisfactorily designed turret ship has yet been built, or even laid down....

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

(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...

24 cm (9.4 in) Mle 1864 or 1870 rifled breech-loading guns in a turret in the bow. The ships were protected by a full-length waterline belt of wrought iron...

coastal defence ships (sometimes also referred to as coastal defence battleships) are included in the list. Yellow cells means the ships were not completed...

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

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

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...

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

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...

transverse bulkheads at each end of the ship ranged from 13 to 8 inches in thickness. The faces of the gun turrets were 18 inches (457 mm) thick while the...

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...

partially protect the ship's main battery guns, rather than heavy gun turrets or inflexible box batteries. A large number of these ships were built by many...

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...