- sold for BU 1946 Devastation-class
mastless turret-ship
Devastation (1871) - Sold for BU 1908
Thunderer (1872)
mastless turret-ship — Sold for BU 1909 Alexandra...
- 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...
-
Channel Squadron.
Obsolescent following the 1873
commissioning of the
mastless and more
capable HMS Devastation, she was
placed in
reserve in 1875, and...
- ship.
Those that were
directly modelled on
Monitor were low-freeboard,
mastless, steam-powered
vessels with one or two rotating,
armoured turrets. The...
- were
instead steered using an oar on one side. The
ancestral rig was the
mastless triangular crab claw sail,
which had two
booms that
could be
tilted to...
- three-sided sail with
spars on both the foot and the head. It's
either mastless,
supported by a "prop", or
mounted on
removable or
fixed masts.
Tanja sail...
- in that it had
plywood instead of
fabric covering of the rear fuselage,
mastless radio antenna,
reflector gunsight and
improved armour and
engine cooling...
-
turret machinery to
maneouvre the guns. She was also the world's
first mastless battleship,
built with a
central superstructure layout, and
became the...
-
focused on short-range
operations in the Adriatic,
built consistently mastless ironclads.
During the 1860s,
steam engines improved with the
adoption of...
- (sometimes
erroneously called "sprits") on each side. They were
originally mastless, and the
entire ****embly was
taken down when the
sails were lowered. There...
