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The first fleet battle, and the first ocean battle, involving ironclad warships was the Battle of Lissa in 1866. Waged between the Austrian and Italian navies, the battle pitted combined fleets of wooden frigates and corvettes and ironclad warships on both sides in the largest naval battle between the battles of Navarino and Tsushima. [26]
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 Chilean Blanco Encalada (1875) was the first ironclad warship sunk by a self-propelled torpedo in 1891. [2] Central battery armored frigates. Almirante Cochrane class. Almirante Cochrane (1874) - alienated in 1933; Blanco Encalada (1875) - sunk in 1891 in the Battle of Caldera Bay, during Chilean Civil War of 1891; Ironclad turret ship
The Warrior-class ironclads were a class of two warships built for the Royal Navy between 1859 and 1862, the first ocean-going ironclads with iron hulls ever constructed. The ships were designed as armoured frigates in response to an invasion scare sparked by the launch of the French ironclad Gloire and her three sisters in 1858.
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]
Ironclad warships of the Confederate States Navy (3 C, 31 P) D. Ironclad warships of the Royal Danish Navy (10 P) F. Ironclad warships of the French Navy (14 C, 15 P) G.
The Ruggiero di Lauria class was a class of ironclad battleships built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during the late 19th century. The three ships—Ruggiero di Lauria, Francesco Morosini, and Andrea Doria–were improved versions of the earlier Duilio-class ironclads.
Tempête class, 2nd Class Coastal Battleship, 4.635-4,793 tons. [1] Tempête (1876) – stricken 1907. [1] Vengeur (1878) – stricken 1905. [1] Tonnant (French: Tonnant) (1880) barbette ship 5,010 tons. Originally intended to be similar to Tempête, but redesigned as a small battleship with increased freeboard and a gun at each end in barbettes.