Tag: ironclad
S.M.S. Arminius was an ironclad turret ship purchased by the Prussian Navy in 1864 and completed the next year. She was completed with 4 bronze 72 pounder guns in 2 turrets designed by Cowper Coles which were then later modified to 210mm guns and aditional superstructure was added. The model in this depiction is of…
SMS Saschen was an Ironclad warship build for the Imperial German navy during the 1870’s as part of a modernisation plan, to modernise and strengthen Germanys navy. In total 4 would be built with her sister ships being Bayern, Württemberg and Baden, and would fullfil the role of coastal defence ships given their classification of…
USS Puritan was an Ironclad built for the US Navy to replace it’s existing old and worn Ironclad built during the civil war. Laid down in June 1874 and launched in December 1882, and commissioned in December 1886, the Puritan had one of the longest build times of the Ironclad era, if not the longest.…
USS Monitor was an Ironclad built for the Union navy during the civil war. Ordered on the 4th of October 1861, Laid down on the 25th and Launched on the 30th of January 1862, before being completed and comissioned on the 25th of Febuary. She was ordered in response to the construction of the CSS…
The Uss Cairo is an Ironclad river gunboat designed and built for the Union navy in January 1862. She was one of 7 city class ironclads deployed on the Mississipi and connecting rivers, with the intention of menacing confederate supply lines and fortifications as it went. Like the Uss Monitor she would have a short…
Hms Devastation was an Ironclad turret ship designed and built for the Royal Navy. She was laid down in November 1869, launched in 1871 and then comissioned in April 1873. Devastation was a large leap forward in warship design as she was one of the first ships to never feature sails as primary or secondary…
Hms Inflexible was completed just in time for the bombardment of Alexandria just a year later from when she was launched,during which she would fire 88 of her huge 16 inch shells at Alexandrias forts, along with many other ships being present.The purpose of this was to silence the defences which were in the hands…
HMS Collossus was a battleship designed and built for the Royal navy. She was laid down in June 1879 and launched in march 1882, and was comissioned in 1886. Its hull was made of open hearth steel and the armour was a steel faced compound, making it one of the first all steel battleships in…
HNOMS Skarv is a 2. Class torpedo boat built for the Norwegian navy in 1906.The first part of her existance was fairly quite, however she would see most if not all of her action in world war 2. The first action she would see was the Altmark incident where the German tanker Altmark, carrying British…
The HNoMS Skorpionen was built as a lead ship of her class, 3 of which were built for the Royal Norwegian navy.(Skorpionen, Mjølner and Thrudvang) The Skorpionens were Norways first Ironclad vessels, being laid down in1865 and launched in 1866. They followed a similar design to The American Union Ironclad USS Monitor with a single…