Ironclad Battleships

[Brian James]

Ironclad Battleship 'Jauréguiberry' pictured at Villefranche c1898.

[ivorthediver]

wow , thats a ponderous off .....unlike the previous ones ......but there again much older

[designeraccd]

Back in those days the French built some, uhh, unusual looking warships! Most of their BBs of the time were only 1 or 2 units per class.

Many looked like floating hotels DFO

[ivorthediver]

I see what you mean .....not exactly sleek eh

[designeraccd]

U-neek, but not sleek...EEK!!! Quite unlike their current FFGs, etc DFO

[ivorthediver]

The lower one resembles a Monitor to me Dennis , top one looks like its from our supplier

[designeraccd]

The JEMMAPES was a "coast defense" battleship. Here's another BIG "hotel"!! DFO

[ivorthediver]

Blimey Dennis where did you dig these up from , I thought at first that the bottom one had been grafted onto a Monitor .

I am constantly amazed at the design change [ no reflection on you ] which just goes to show what a sheltered view I held , so again my thanks mate

[Brian James]

Central Battery Ironclad Battleship Redoutable pictured at Algiers in 1893.She was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material,France was the first country to manufacture steel in large quantities using the Siemens process. At that time, steel plates still had some defects, and the outer bottom plating of the ship was made of wrought iron.

[designeraccd]

A 1885 view of FORMIDABLE.........DFO