HMS Active — Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Active or HMS Actif :*HMS|Active|1758|6 was a 28 gun sixth rate launched in 1758 and captured in 1778 by the French off San Domingo. *HMS|Active|1776|6 was a 14 gun brig sloop launched in 1776… … Wikipedia
HMS Active — Elf Schiffe der Royal Navy führten bisher den Namen HMS Active, benannt nach dem englischen Wort für aktiv: Die erste HMS Active war ein 28 Kanonen Schiff der 6. Klasse, das 1758 vom Stapel lief und 1778 während des Amerikanischen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
HMS Audacious (1869) — The ironclad battleship HMS Audacious was the nameship of an experimental class of armoured battleships designed to expand on the success of HMS Warrior built ten years before. The ships were intended to act as the frontline of the modern… … Wikipedia
HMS Wivern (1863) — HMS Wivern was a 2,750 ton ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, one of two sister ships secretly ordered from the Laird Sons shipyard by the Confederate States of America government in 1862.Her true ownership was concealed by the… … Wikipedia
HMS Duke of Wellington — was a 131 gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1852, she was symptomatic of an era of rapid technological change in the navy, being powered both by sail and steam. An early steam powered ship, she was still fitted with… … Wikipedia
HMS Zealous (1864) — HMS Zealous was one of the three ships (the others being HMS|Royal Alfred|1864|6 and HMS|Repulse|1868|6) forming the second group of wooden second rate warships selected in 1860 for conversion to broadside ironclads in response to the perceived… … Wikipedia
HMS Agincourt (1865) — HMS Agincourt was one of three Minotaur class ironclads, the sistership of HMS Minotaur and a near sister to HMS Northumberland . She was a fully rigged ship with a steam engine and an armoured iron hull and was launched in 1865. Agincourt s… … Wikipedia
HMS Monarch (1868) — HMS Monarch was the first sea going warship to carry her guns in turrets, and the first British warship to carry guns of convert|12|in|adj=on calibre.She was designed by Sir Edward Reed, at a time when the basic configuration of battleship design … Wikipedia
HMS Resistance (1861) — HMS Resistance was the second and last ship of the Defence Class to be commissioned. She served in the Channel from 1862 to 1864, and was then posted to the Mediterranean, where she was the first British ironclad to see service. She paid off in… … Wikipedia
HMS Sutlej (1855) — HMS Sutlej was a Constance class 50 gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy.The class was designed by Sir William Symonds in 1843, and were the largest sailing frigates built for the Navy. Sutlej was ordered from Pembroke Dockyard on 26 March… … Wikipedia
