The two British Devastation-class battleships of the 1870s, HMS Devastation and HMS Thunderer, were the first class of ocean-going capital ship that did...

development of the 1876 ironclad Redoutable. The class consisted of Dévastation and Courbet. The Dévastation-class ironclads were authorized under the...

The Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries were built for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications during the Crimean War. France had intended...

Lave was one of five Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built for the French Navy during the Crimean War. Completed in 1855, she participated...

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...

France built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during...

The Dévastation was an Dévastation-class ironclad battleship of the French Navy of central battery (casemate) design. She was used as a school ship for...

a Devastation-class ironclad - the world's first mastless battleships - launched in 1872 and sold in 1909 HMS Thunderer (1911) was an Orion-class battleship...

Tonnante was a Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery of the French Navy that served during the 19th century. The Dévastation class were designed...

Foudroyant was a Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery built for the French Navy during the Crimean War. Completed in 1855, she was intended to serve...

The British Royal Navy's ironclad Admiral-class battleships of the 1880s followed the pattern of the Devastation class in having the main armament on...

Congrève was a Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery built for the French Navy during the Crimean War. Completed in 1855, she was intended to serve...

the French emperor Napoleon III to order the first ironclad warships: the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batterys. Three of these ships led the Anglo-French...

batteries, and their designs were thus based on the France's Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery which had earned recognition at the Battle of...

battleships', starting with the Devastation class. These 'breastwork monitors' were markedly different from the other high-seas ironclads of the period and were...

HMS Thunderer was one of two Devastation-class ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. She suffered two serious accidents before the...

Edward Reed, as an improved and enlarged version of the preceding Devastation-class ironclad turret ships. The ship was laid down, fully framed and partially...

Dévastation was the lead ship of the Dévastation-class of ironclad floating batteries that served with the French Navy during the 19th century. The Dévastation...

(1870) central-battery ironclad — Named Fisgard IV 1906-1931; sold for BU 1946 Devastation-class mastless turret-ship Devastation (1871) - Sold for BU 1908...

one of two Devastation-class ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s HMS Thunderer (1911), the fourth and last Orion-class dreadnought...

experimental ironclad warships that had recently arrived from France. These, the first three ironclad batteries of the Dévastation class—Lave, Dévastation, and...

The Aetna-class ironclad floating batteries were built during the Crimean War for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications. Britain and France each...

Courbet was an Dévastation-class ironclad central battery battleship of the French Navy. The Dévastation class were authorized under the naval construction...

Condor-class sloops Conqueror-class monitors Cressy-class cruisers Cyclops-class monitors Devastation-class ironclads Devonshire-class cruisers Diadem-class...

The Arrogante-class were three ironclad floating batteries built for the French Navy during the 1860s. de Balincourt, Captain & Vincent-Bréchignac, Captain...

Palestro class consisted of four ironclad floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859–1862 to replace the Crimean War-built Dévastation class because...

ironclad rams D-class destroyers Daring-class destroyers Devastation-class ironclads Dryad-class torpedo gunboats E and F-class destroyers Fly-class gunboats...

Paixhans was a Palestro-class ironclad floating battery built for the French Navy after the Crimean War of 1854–1855. Completed in 1863, she was immediately...

building material. She was preceded by the Colbert-class ironclads and was succeeded by Dévastation-class. Compared to iron, steel allowed for greater structural...

Italian fleet, which had begun work on the very large ironclads of the Duilio and Italia classes in the early 1870s. The Italian vessels, armed with 45 cm...