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Wooden hull ships that have been subsequently armored will also be considered in this list. Although the introduction of the ironclad is clear-cut, the boundary between 'ironclad' and the later 'pre-dreadnought battleship' is less obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved from 1875 to 1895. For the sake of this article, a ...
This is a list of ironclads of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armour plates. The term battleship was not used by the Admiralty until the early 1880s [citation needed], with the construction of the Colossus class ...
The proliferation of ironclad battleship designs came to an end in the 1890s as navies reached a consensus on the design of battleships, producing the type known as the pre-dreadnought. These ships are sometimes covered in treatments of the ironclad warship.
This is a list of ships of the Confederate States Navy (CSN), used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865. Included are some types of civilian vessels, such as blockade runners , steamboats , and privateers which contributed to the war efforts by the CSN.
The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called ' pre-dreadnought battleship ', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.
Small battleships based on the Amiral Baudin, and intended for operating in the Baltic in case of war with Germany. [3] The British sometimes considered these to be sea-going battleships, [5] and sometimes coastal service warships. [2] Caïman (1885) – BU 1927. [1] Indomptable (1883) – BU 1927. [1] Requin (1885) – stricken 1920. [1]
Arminius was an ironclad warship of the Prussian Navy, later the Imperial German Navy.The ship was designed by the British Captain Cowper Coles and built by the Samuda Brothers shipyard in London as a speculative effort; [5] [7] Prussia purchased the ship during the Second Schleswig War against Denmark, though the vessel was not delivered until after the war. [11]
The Trafalgars were the penultimate low-freeboard battleships built for the Royal Navy. This design had been favoured for several years because it reduced the size of the target that the ships presented to enemy guns in battle, and because the smaller hull area allowed thicker armour.