-
enduring meaning of 'block ship', but in the mid-19th
century the term
blockships was
applied to two
groups of
mobile sea
batteries developed by the Royal...
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breakwaters would be used, then
blockships were proposed, and finally,
because not
enough block ships were available, a mix of
blockships and purpose-made concrete...
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their base at
Scapa was
defensively reinforced,
beginning with over
sixty blockships sunk in the many
entrance channels between the
southern islands to enable...
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Zeebrugge Raid
involved three outdated British cruisers chosen to
serve as
blockships in the German-held
Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge from
which German...
- (converted
Mersey ferries)
Blockships for the
Bruges Canal: HMS Thetis, HMS Intrepid and HMS Iphigenia (Apollo-class cruisers)
Blockships for
Ostend Harbour:...
- line into 60-gun steam-powered
blockships (following the
model of Fulton's Demologos),
starting in 1845. The
blockships were "originally
conceived as steam...
-
their base at
Scapa was
defensively reinforced,
beginning with over
sixty blockships sunk in the many
entrance channels between the
southern islands to enable...
-
under siege. The
Russians were
reduced to
scuttling their warships as
blockships after they had
stripped them of
their guns and men to
reinforce batteries...
- to
reinforce Upnor Castle.
River defences were
hastily improvised with
blockships sunk, and the
chain across the
river was
guarded by
light batteries. Pett...
- and
several floating piers. The
Mulberry harbours were
supplemented by
blockship shelters (codenamed "Gooseberries"). With the
expectation that fuel would...
