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BATTLESHIPS, PANZERSCHIFFE,1894 Original Antique Wood Engraving

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PRINT SHOWS: 1. HMS Devastation (1871) .HMS Devastation was built by the British Royal Navy at the Pembroke Dockyard, Wales in 1871. She is considered the first true capital ship built by any nation at the time, the development of the monitor-type ship into the ocean-going battleship. Devastation was built in the 1870s, a time in which steam power was well established among the world's larger naval powers. However, most ships built at this time were not only equipped with a steam engine but also masts for auxiliary power. This also led to a tendency to mount gun turrets as broadsides. Devastation, designed by Sir Edward J. Reed, changed all of this when she was built without masts and her primary armament of two turrets each with two 12-inch (305 mm) muzzle-loading guns were placed on the top of the hull, allowing each turret to have a 280 degree arc of fire. The ship could attain a speed of 13.84 knots (25.6 km/h) and had a range of 5,500 nautical miles (8,850 km), both of which were considered good in their day. In 1891, the 12-inch guns were replaced with 10-inch breech-loading guns and she was refitted with new engines. She was deployed to serve near the waters of the United Kingdom and the Mediterranean Sea. Afterwards, she was refitted again and assigned to the First Reserve Fleet based in Scotland. The ship was broken up in 1908. 2. GERMAN BATLLESHIP - SAXON CLASS , 1877 3. ITALIAN BATTLESHIP - 1880 4. HMS Collingwood (1882) - HMS Collingwood was an ironclad battleship of the Victorian Royal Navy. She was the first example of the Admiral class, all of which except HMS Camperdown were named after famous Naval Commanders. At the time of her design, she was not considered as being the fore-runner of a class; She was designed by Barnaby as a one-off, as an answer to the French Formidable class, which carried three heavy guns on the centre line and a number of smaller pieces on the broadside. He made several proposals to the Board of Admiralty, including an improved Inflexible, an improved Dreadnought and an improved Italia, all of which were rejected. His final submission, which became HMS Collingwood, featured breech-loading artillery mounted on the centre-line in barbettes and set the pattern for every British battleship designed thereafter until HMS Dreadnought. 5. Amiral Duperre Barbette Ship. Built at La Seyne laid down in January 1877 and launched in September 1879. commissioned into the French navy in 1883. The Amiral Duperre was a high freeboard barbette ship, the two Funnels were built abreast and she eventually had two masts with armed tops. She was well protected below the waterline but was very vulnerable above and would have been a easy target for other well armed and protected ships of the day, such as HMS Inflexible. finally stricken ion 1909 6. GERMAN BRANDEBURG CLASS BATLLESHIP - 1891

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