Royal Navy Warships of the Nineteenth Century (A Selection)

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Steam and sail — paddlewheel propulsion

• Her Majesty’s War-steamer Terrible (“a paddle-wheel steam man-of-war”), 1845

Steam and sail — screw propulsion

• The Steam-frigate Janus, 1844
• H.M.S. Arrogant, 1848
• Experimental firing of the Bellerophon at the H.M.S. Royal Sovereign at Spithead,1849
• Clarkson Stanfield's Men of War off Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1855
• H.M.S. Agincourt, 1865
• Launching the ironclad frigate the Northumberland in 1866
• H.M.S. Hotspur, 1871
• H.M.S. Thunderer fitted with netting for protection against torpedoes, 1872
• H.M.S. torpedo gun-boat Rattlesnake, 1887
• H.M.S. Demon, 1891
• H.M.S. Glory, 1899

Link to Related Material

• The Royal Navy: A Brief Introduction
• Military Technology

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