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 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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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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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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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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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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shore fortifications. The French used three of their ironclad batteries (Lave, Tonnante and Dévastation) in 1855 against the defenses at the Battle of Kinburn...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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iron-plated floating battery Dévastation gained international attention following its use during the Crimean War in October 1855. Dévastation would signal the beginning...
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Duperré and the ironclads Colbert, Friedland, Redoutable, Suffren, and Dévastation conducted shooting practice using the old ironclad Armide as a target...
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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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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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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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Condor-class sloops Conqueror-class monitors Cressy-class cruisers Cyclops-class monitors Devastation-class ironclads Devonshire-class cruisers Diadem-class...
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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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of Magenta, her two sisters, the two Amiral Baudin-class ships, Courbet, Dévastation, the ironclad Redoutable and the new pre-dreadnought battleship Brennus...
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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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The Palestro-class ironclad floating batteries were four floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859–1862 to replace the Crimean War-built vessels...
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Baudin was an ironclad barbette ship of the French Navy built in the late 1870s and 1880s. She was the lead ship of the Amiral Baudin class, which included...
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List of battleships (redirect from List of battleship classes)
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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