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enduring meaning of 'block ship', but in the mid-19th
century the term
blockships was
applied to two
groups of
mobile sea
batteries developed by the Royal...
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breakwaters would be used, then
blockships were proposed, and finally,
because not
enough block ships were available, a mix of
blockships and purpose-made concrete...
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their base at
Scapa was
defensively reinforced,
beginning with over
sixty blockships sunk in the many
entrance channels between the
southern islands to enable...
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Zeebrugge Raid
involved three outdated British cruisers chosen to
serve as
blockships in the German-held
Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge from
which German...
- line into 60-gun steam-powered
blockships (following the
model of Fulton's Demologos),
starting in 1845. The
blockships were "originally
conceived as steam...
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modified Royal Sovereign-class
battleship launched in 1891 and sunk as a
blockship in 1914 HMS Hood, an Admiral-class
battlecruiser launched in 1918 and...
- ****anese
aircraft or were sunk
deliberately by the
Chinese to use as
blockships in the Yangtze. By 1939 most of the
Chinese navy had been destro****, with...
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sailed south during the
American Civil War by the
Union Navy for use as
blockships. They were to be
deliberately sunk at the
entrance of
Charleston Harbor...
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commissioned USS
Artemis April–October 1919.
Scuttled in 1944 as an
additional blockship for
Operation Overlord. HMT Empire
Windrush 1930 MV
Monte Rosa (1930–1947)...
- USS Merrimac (1894), a
collier purchased in
April 1898 and sunk as a
blockship in June 1898
during the Spanish–American War USS Merrimack (AO-37), a...
