About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: HMS Warrior, USS Richmond, HMS Rosario, USS Arletta, HMS Orpheus, USS Adolph Hugel, USS Rhode Island, HMS Atlas, HMS Prince of Wales, USS Alfred Robb, USS Planter, HMS Mullett, USS John P. Jackson, HMS Rapid, USS Yankee, List of ship launches in 1860, USS Linden, USS Isaac N. Seymour, USS South Carolina, USS Malvern, USS R. R. Cuyler, Japanese warship Kasuga, USS Hastings, USS Commodore Hull, USS Massachusetts, Ellan Vannin, Fiery Cross, CSS Ellis, USS Sallie Wood, USS General Lyon, USS Reliance, USS Cambridge, USS Bienville, Jylland, USS Tensas, HMS Eclipse, Flying Spur, USS Queen, USS Donegal, HMS Liverpool, HMS Beatrice, USS Cohasset, CSS Baltic, CSS Cotton Plant, USS Samson, HMS Nimble, PS Admiral Moorsom, French ironclad Normandie, HNoMS Kong Sverre, HMS Howe, HMS Newcastle, Era No. 5, HMS Zebra. Excerpt: HMS Warrior was the first iron-hulled, armour-plated warship, built for the Royal Navy in response to the first ironclad warship, the French La Gloire, launched a year earlier. When completed in October 1861, Warrior was by far the largest, fastest, most heavily armed and most heavily armoured warship the world had seen. She was almost twice the size of La Gloire and thoroughly outclassed the French ship in speed, armour, and gunnery. Warrior did not introduce any radical new technology, but for the first time combined steam engines, rifled breech-loading guns, iron construction, iron armour, and the propeller in one ship, and all built to an unprecedented scale. Her construction started an intense international competition between guns and armour that did not end until air power made battleships obsolete in the Second World War. Warrior became an early example of the trend towards rapid battleship obsolescence and was withdrawn as a fighting unit in May 1883. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Cor...
