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These guns were designed to arm HMS Furious, which was a modified version of the Courageous class of “Large Light Cruisers” built during World War I. The two ships in the Courageous class were fitted with four 15″/42 (38.1 cm) Mark I guns in two twin mounts, but these were replaced on HMS Furious with two 18″/40Continue reading “British Guns – 18″/40 (45.7 cm) Mark I- HMS Furious”

The Grimsby class consisted of thirteen sloops, four of which were built in Australia for the RAN. Swan, one of the first pair constructed, had a displacement of 1,060 tons at standard load and 1,500 tons at full load, was 266 feet 3 inches (81.15 m) long, had a beam of 36 feet (11 m),Continue reading “HMAS Swan (U74/F74/A427), named for the Swan River, was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) that served during World War II.”

The battleship HMS Temeraire, launched in 1876, was the first British ship of this class to be armed partly in barbets and partly on the sides as in the older ships. It was also one of the last Royal Navy battleships to sail. The keel of HMS Temeraire was laid on August 18, 1873 at theContinue reading “HMS Temeraire did not have exciting service, nor was it a modern vessel (although for the Royal Navy it was an experimental ship).”

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