Tag: Navy
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HMS Inflexible (1876) Ironclad Battleship
HMS Inflexible (1876) Ironclad Battleship Laid down at Portsmouth in 1874 and launched two years later, HMS Inflexible (1876) was designed by the Chief Constructor of the Navy, Nathaniel Barnaby. Her design was in response to the perceived threat posed by powerful Italian ironclads then under construction, particularly the Duilio and Dandolo. Barnaby’s response was… Read more
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USS Alabama BB-8 Battleship
USS Alabama BB-8 Battleship The USS Alabama (BB-8) was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1900 as part of the Illinois class. Built during a period of rapid naval expansion, she represented America’s growing ambition to become a major sea power at the turn of the twentieth century. Armed with four… Read more
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HMS Trinidad (1941) British Light Cruiser
HMS Trinidad (1941) British Light Cruiser The HMS Trinidad was a British light cruiser of the Royal Navy, built during the late 1930s as part of the Crown Colony or Fiji class. Constructed by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, she was launched in March 1941 and entered service during one of the most difficult periods of… Read more