-
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...
-
Zeebrugge Raid
involved three outdated British cruisers chosen to
serve as
blockships in the German-held
Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge from
which German...
-
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...
- (converted
Mersey ferries)
Blockships for the
Bruges Canal: HMS Thetis, HMS Intrepid and HMS Iphigenia (Apollo-class cruisers)
Blockships for
Ostend Harbour:...
-
their base at
Scapa was
defensively reinforced,
beginning with over
sixty blockships sunk in the many
entrance channels between the
southern islands to enable...
- line into 60-gun steam-powered
blockships (following the
model of Fulton's Demologos),
starting in 1845. The
blockships were "originally
conceived as steam...
- a
minelayer in the
latter half of her
career and
ultimately sunk as a
blockship during the
Zeebrugge Raid on 23
April 1918.
Ordered under the
Naval Defence...
- sea.
Zeebrugge was to be
attacked by a
large force consisting of
three blockships and
numerous supporting warships.
Ostend was
faced by a
similar but smaller...
- ****anese
aircraft or were sunk
deliberately by the
Chinese to use as
blockships in the Yangtze. By 1939 most of the
Chinese navy had been destro****, with...
- to
reinforce Upnor Castle.
River defences were
hastily improvised with
blockships sunk, and the
chain across the
river was
guarded by
light batteries. Pett...
