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612: 544: 448: 158: 136: 33: 966: 519:(later Queen Alexandra) on 7 April 1875. She was the first British ironclad to be launched by a member of the royal family; the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke and Duchess of Teck and the Duke of Cambridge were also present. The religious element of the service (the first at a ship launch since the Reformation) was conducted by 476:, with heavy guns deployed both on the main and on the upper deck. Recognising the increasing importance of axial fire, Barnaby arranged the artillery so that, by firing through embrasures, there was the capability of deploying four heavy guns to fire dead ahead, and two astern; all guns could if required fire on the broadside. 500:), as compared to rectangular boilers working at 30 lbf/in (210 kPa) pressure mounted in earlier ships. Twelve boilers were set back to back on either side of a longitudinal bulkhead; each engine drove an outward rotating screw of some 21 feet (6 m) in diameter. A pair of auxiliary engines, each of 600 627:
in early c. April 1896 and was then described as a "coastguard ship at Portsmouth" with her principal armament being eight 18-tons guns, four 22-ton, six 4-inch and four six-pounder and six three-pounder quick firers. At this time, she had a complement of 408 officers and men and was commanded by
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were at loggerheads amongst themselves as regards the provision of sails in their contemporary warships; steam engine design had advanced to the point where ships could cross the Atlantic under steam power alone, but centuries of tradition had left an ingrained emotional attachment to sails in a
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was the last of a long series of progressive steps in the development of vessels of her type. As the militarily most effective of all of the broadside ironclads, she was, ironically, designed by
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Captain W.H. Pigott. Her last sea-time was as flagship of the 'B' fleet in the manoeuvres of 1899, which included tests of the use of wireless. On 31 July she received a wireless message from
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was the last British battleship to carry her main armament wholly below decks; she was one of only two British ships to mount guns of 11-inch (280 mm) calibre, the other being
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over a distance of 95 miles, the longest distance to date for a naval transmission. In 1903 she became a mechanical training ship, and she was sold in 1908.
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She was commissioned at Chatham on 2 January 1877 as flagship, Mediterranean Fleet, and held this position continuously until 1889. She was the flagship of
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She was the first British warship to be powered by vertical compound engines, carrying cylindrical high-pressure boilers with a working pressure of 60
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during the Russian war scare of 1878. On 9 February, she ran aground in bad weather at the narrowest part of the strait and was towed off by
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small but influential number of the senior members of the naval hierarchy. This minority succeeded in convincing the Board to design
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The Origins of Maritime Radio: The Story of the Introduction of wireless telegraphy in the Royal Navy Between 1896 and 1900
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flung a live 10-inch enemy shell into a tub of water, an action which led to the award of the Victoria Cross. In 1886, the
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In 1891, she was flagship of the Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves at Portsmouth, and remained so until 1901.
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in 1878 and the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. She was affectionately known by her crew as
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Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Harpers Monthly, February 1886
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in time to lead the squadron to Constantinople. On 4 October 1879, HMS
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hoisted his flag on board, and Prince George of Wales, later
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in 1882; in this action the Admiral's flag was shifted to
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Bulkheads 8 inches (200 mm) to 5 inches (130 mm)
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Pocock, R. F.; Garratt, Gerald Reginald Mansel (1972).
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United Kingdom
Alexandra, Princess of Wales
Chatham Dockyard
ihp
MW
11-inch (280 mm) muzzle-loading rifles
10-inch (254 mm) rifled muzzle-loading guns
13-cwt (660 kg) breech-loaders
BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) guns
muzzle-loading rifles
BL 4-inch (100 mm) guns
muzzle-loading rifles
QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) guns
central battery ironclad
Royal Navy
Russian Empire
Ottoman Empire

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