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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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