- A
floating battery is a kind of
armed watercraft,
often improvised or experimental,
which carries heavy armament but has few
other qualities as a warship...
- CSS Danube,
floating battery CSS Memphis,
floating battery CSS New Orleans,
floating battery, scuttled:
April 7, 1862
Floating Battery of Charleston...
- needed. Also to
compose the
whole battery entirely of such guns." — Admiral John A. Dahlgren. A
class of
floating batteries named after Paixhans was developed...
- The
Floating Battery of
Charleston Harbor was an
ironclad vessel that was
constructed by the
Confederacy in
early 1861, a few
months before the American...
- the
Floating Batteries at
Gibraltar (also
called The
Siege of Gibraltar, The
Siege and
Relief of
Gibraltar or The
Repulse of the
Floating Batteries at...
- men, 49
ships of the line and 10
specially designed,
newly invented floating batteries—against the 5,000 defenders. The ****ault
proved to be a disastrous...
-
sometimes referred to as 'Land
Batteries',
distinguishing this form of
artillery battery from for
example floating batteries. In the
United Kingdom, in the...
- Lave was one of five Dévastation-class
ironclad floating batteries built for the
French Navy
during the
Crimean War.
Completed in 1855, she parti****ted...
- fit for
service at sea, but
still powerfully armed, as a line of
floating batteries off the
eastern coast of the
island of Amager, in
front of the city...
-
Admiralty agreed to
build five
armored floating batteries on the
French plans. The
French floating batteries were deplo**** in 1855 as a
supplement to...
