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Background. HMS Prince Albert, a pioneering turret ship, built by naval engineer Cowper Phipps Coles. Before the development of large-calibre, long-range guns in the mid-19th century, the classic ship of the line design used rows of port-mounted guns on each side of the ship, often mounted in casemates. Firepower was provided by a large number ...
A 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 vessels were rounded and stepped inward above their waterlines. This gave some advantages in strength and allowed them to pay lower canal tolls under tonnage measurement rules then in effect.
HMS Prince Albert, a pioneering turret ship, whose turrets were designed by Cowper Phipps Coles. While Coles designed the turrets, the ship was the responsibility of Chief Constructor Isaac Watts. [4] Another ship using Coles' turret designs, HMS Royal Sovereign, was completed in August 1864. Its existing broadside guns were replaced with four ...
SS. Querimba. SS Querimba was one of the largest turret deck ships ever built. She was launched in England in 1905, renamed Maria Enrica in 1923, and scrapped in Italy in 1933. She was one of three sister ships that William Doxford & Sons built for the British India Steam Navigation Company (BI) in 1905. They were the only turret deck ships BI ...
Deck: 30 to 51 mm (1.2 to 2 in) The Duilio class was a pair of ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1870s and 1880s. The two ships, Duilio and Enrico Dandolo, were fitted with the largest guns available, 450 mm (17.7 in) rifled muzzle-loading guns, and were the largest, fastest and most powerful ships of ...
Scorpion. (1863) HMS Scorpion was an ironclad turret ship built by John Laird Sons & Company, at Birkenhead, England. She was one of two sister ships secretly ordered from the Laird shipyard in 1862 by the Confederate States of America. Her true ownership was concealed by the fiction that she was being built as the Egyptian warship El Tousson.
Navarin. Navarin (Russian: Наварин) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and spent the early part of her career deployed in the Mediterranean and in the Far East. She participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 ...
Conning tower: 4.5 in (114 mm) Deck: 1 in (25 mm) The Russian monitor Charodeika was the lead ship of her class of monitors built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1860s. She served for her entire career with the Baltic Fleet, mostly as a training ship. She was decommissioned in 1907, but was not broken up until 1911–12.