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QF 6 Pounder Hotchkiss
The Ordnance QF Hotchkiss 6 pounder gun Mk I and Mk II or QF 6 pounder 8 cwt were a family of long-lived light naval guns introduced in 1885 to defend against new, small and fast vessels such as torpedo boats and later submarines. Many variants were produced, often under license, which ranged in length from 40 to 58 calibres, with 40 calibre the most common. 6-pounders were widely used by the navies of a number of nations and often used by both sides in a conflict. Due to advances in torpedo delivery and performance, 6-pounder guns were rapidly made obsolete and were replaced with larger guns aboard most larger warships. This led to their being used ashore during World War I as Coastal artillery, coastal defence guns, the first tank guns and as anti-aircraft guns, whether on improvised or specialized Glossary of British ordnance terms#HA/LA, HA/LA mounts. During World War II 6-pounder guns were put back in service to arm small warships and as coastal defence guns. The last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Armstrong Whitworth
Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. With headquarters in Elswick, Tyne and Wear, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Whitworth built armaments, ships, locomotives, automobiles and aircraft. The company was founded by William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, William Armstrong in 1847, becoming Armstrong Mitchell and then Armstrong Whitworth through mergers. In 1927, it merged with Vickers Limited to form Vickers-Armstrongs, with its automobile and aircraft interests purchased by John Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth, J D Siddeley. History In 1847, the engineer William George Armstrong founded the Elswick, Tyne and Wear, Elswick works at Newcastle, to produce hydraulic machinery, cranes and bridges, soon to be followed by artillery, notably the Armstrong breech-loading gun, with which the British Army was re-equipped after the Crimean War. In 1882, it merged with the shipbuilding firm of Charles Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bofors 40mm L/60
The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. The gun was designed as an intermediate anti-aircraft gun, filling the gap between fast firing close-range small calibre anti-aircraft guns and slower firing long-range high calibre anti-aircraft guns. For its time, the Bofors 40 mm L/60 was perfectly suited for this role and outperformed competing designs in the years leading up to World War II in both effectiveness and reliability. It entered the export market around 1932 and was in service with 18 countries by 1939. Throughout World War II it became one of the most popular and widespread medium-weight anti-aircraft guns. It was used by the majority of the western Allies and some Axis powers such as Nazi Germany and Hungary. In the post-war era, the Bofors 40 mm L/60 design was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pre-dreadnought Battleship
Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built from the mid- to late- 1880s to the early 1900s. Their designs were conceived before the appearance of in 1906 and their classification as "pre-dreadnought" is retrospectively applied. In their day, they were simply known as "battleships" or else more rank-specific terms such as "first-class battleship" and so forth. The pre-dreadnought battleships were the pre-eminent warships of their time and replaced the ironclad warship, ironclad battleships of the 1870s and 1880s. In contrast to the multifarious development of ironclads in preceding decades, the 1890s saw navies worldwide start to build battleships to a common design as dozens of ships essentially followed the design of the Royal Navy's . Built from steel, protected by compound armour, compound, nickel steel or case-hardening, case-hardened steel armor, pre-dreadnought battleships were driven by coal-fired boilers powering triple-expansion steam engine, compou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brazilian Cruiser Almirante Barroso (1896)
''Almirante Barroso'' was a protected cruiser operated by the Brazilian Navy between 1896 and 1931. It was the first Brazilian ship to have radio telegraphy. It represented Brazil in Argentina and Chile, in addition to other commissions. It was one of the government ships that faced the rebels in the Revolt of the Lash. It was decommissioned in 1931. Construction and design ''Almirante Barroso'' was built at the Armstrong Whitworth & Co. shipyards in Elswick, England. The keel was laid in September 1895 and the launch and commissioning took place on 25 August 1896. It was the third vessel to bear the name ''Almirante Barroso'', in honor of admiral Francisco Manuel Barroso, Baron of Amazonas. The ship was constructed with 5/8 inch steel plates. It had 14 watertight compartments, an armored deck, a Cofferdam-type armored belt to protect vital areas, a double hull, a battering ram and two masts. It displaced 3,437 t and measured 107.989 m in total length; 100.580 m in length betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marshal Deodoro-class Coastal Defense Ship
The ''Deodoro'' class were two French-designed and -built coastal defense battleships built for the Brazilian Navy in the late 1890s. Upon their completion, ''Scientific American'' called them small vessels of a type "built only for second-rate naval powers," but also noted that it was a "wonder ... so much armor and armament could be carried" on a ship of its size. They served the Brazilian Navy as its only modern armored warships until the arrival of two dreadnoughts in 1910.Lyon, p. 407 About The ships had a low freeboard and long superstructures with single-gun main turrets arranged at each end. Their secondary batteries were also mounted at each end of the superstructure, albeit in casemates in each corner. All used British Armstrong guns. In 1912, both ships were overhauled with new propulsion and armament. In 1924, Brazil sold ''Marshal Deodoro'' to the Mexican Navy The Mexican Navy () is one of the components of the Mexican Armed Forces. The Secretariat of the Navy i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Protected Cruiser
Protected cruisers, a type of cruiser of the late 19th century, took their name from the armored deck, which protected vital machine-spaces from fragments released by explosive shells. Protected cruisers notably lacked a belt of armour along the sides, in contrast to armored cruisers which carried both deck and belt armour. Outside of a handful of very large designs in the major navies (which preceded the revival of armored cruisers), the majority of protected cruisers were of 'second-' or 'third-class' types, lighter in displacement and mounting fewer and/or lighter guns than armored cruisers. By the early 20th-century, with the advent of increasingly lighter yet stronger armour, even smaller vessels could afford some level of both belt and deck armour. In the place of protected cruisers, these new ' light armored cruisers' would evolve into light cruisers and heavy cruisers, the former especially taking on many of the roles originally envisioned for protected cruisers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Coastal Defence Ship
Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly during the period from 1860 to 1920. They were small, often cruiser-sized warships that sacrificed speed and range for armour and armament. They were usually attractive to nations that either could not afford full-sized battleships or could be satisfied by specially designed shallow-draft vessels capable of littoral operations close to their own shores. The Nordic countries and Thailand found them particularly appropriate for their island-dotted coastal waters. Some vessels had limited blue-water capabilities; others operated in rivers. The coastal defence ships differed from earlier monitors by having a higher freeboard and usually possessing both higher speed and a secondary armament; some examples also mounted casemated guns (monitors' guns were almost always in turrets). They varied in size from around 1,500 tons to 8,0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ARA San Martin
Ara may refer to: Biology * ''Ara'' (bird), a genus of parrots * Ara (fish) (''Niphon spinosus''), a species of fish *L-arabinose operon, also known as ara Places *Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia * Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia *Ara, Bihar, a city in India * Ara, Ramgarh, a town in Jharkhand, India *Ara, Ranchi, a town in Jharkhand, India * Ara, Iran, a village in Iran *'Ara, a village in Israel * Ara (lake), a lake in Norway * Arakawa River (other), also known as Ara, several rivers in Japan * River Ara, Ireland People Given name *Ara the Beautiful, a legendary Armenian hero * Ara Ball, Canadian film director * Ara Bartlett (fl. 1825–1880), American lawyer and judge *Ara Dinkjian (born 1958), Armenian oud player and composer *Go Ara (born 1990), South Korean actress and model *Ara Parseghian (1923–2017), American football player and coach *Yoo Ara (born 1992), South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus *Ara Guler (1928-2018), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ARA Pueyrredón
ARA ''Pueyrredón'' was one of four armored cruisers purchased by the Argentine Navy from Italy in the 1890s. Design and description ''Pueyrredón'' had an length overall, overall length of , a beam (nautical), beam of , and a mean draft (ship) of . She Displacement (ship), displaced at normal load. The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam from eight Scotch marine boilers. The engines were designed for a maximum output of and a speed of .Chesneau & Kolsnik, p. 403 She had a cruising range of at .Silverstone, p. 11 Her complement consisted of 25 officers and 300 enlisted men.Arguindeguy, Tomo IV, p. 1814 Her main battery, main armament consisted of two 40-caliber (artillery), caliber Armstrong Whitworth EOC 10 inch 40 caliber, guns, in gun turrets fore and aft of the superstructure. The ten 40-caliber List of British ordnance terms#QF, quick-firing (QF) QF 6 inch /40 naval gun, guns that comprised her secondary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ARA Garibaldi
ARA ''Garibaldi'' was one of four armored cruisers purchased by the Argentine Navy from Italy. Design and description ''Garibaldi'' had an overall length of , a beam of , and a mean draft (ship) of . She displaced at normal load. The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam from eight Scotch marine boilers. The engines were designed for a maximum output of and a speed of .Chesneau & Kolsnik, p. 403 She had a cruising range of at .Silverstone, p. 11 Her complement consisted of 28 officers and 420 enlisted men.Arguindeguy, Tomo IV, p. 1764 Her main armament consisted of two 40-caliber Armstrong Whitworth guns, in gun turrets fore and aft of the superstructure. The ten 40-caliber quick-firing (QF) guns that comprised her secondary armament were arranged in casemates amidships on the main deck. ''Garibaldi'' also had six QF , ten QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss and eight QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns to defend herself agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ARA General Belgrano (1896)
ARA ''General Belgrano'' was a armoured cruiser of the Argentine Navy. The ship was built in Italy, along with three sister ships also for Argentina (ARA Garibaldi, ''Garibaldi'', ARA Pueyrredón, ''Pueyrredón'' and ARA San Martín, ''San Martín''). The vessel was the first to have been named after the Argentine Founding fathers, founding father Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820). The ship was laid down in 1896 and served on the Argentine Navy until she was stricken on 8 May 1947. Service history The cruiser was built at the Cantiere Navale Fratelli Orlando, in Livorno, where her hull was laid down in 1896 and launched on 25 July 1897. She was purchased in 1898 by the government of Argentina, engaged in a diplomatic conflict with Chile. After testing of machinery and artillery, ''General Belgrano'' entered service on 8 October 1898, departing the same day entered the port of Genoa, under the command of Captain Emilio Barilari, arriving at their destination in Mar del Plata, on N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Argentine–Chilean Naval Arms Race
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the South American nations of Argentina and Chile engaged in an expensive naval arms race to ensure the other would not gain supremacy in the Southern Cone. Although the Argentine and Chilean navies were insignificant in the 1860s, with zero and five warships, respectively, Argentina's concern over a strong Imperial Brazilian Navy and the Chilean war against Spain caused them to add capable warships to their fleets in the 1870s. During this time, diplomatic relations between Argentina and Chile soured due to conflicting boundary claims, particularly in Patagonia. By the beginning of the 1880s, after the War of the Pacific, the Chilean government possessed possibly the strongest navy in the Americas. They planned to add to it with an 1887 appropriation for one battleship, two protected cruisers, and two torpedo gunboats. Argentina responded a year later with an order for two battleships of its own. The naval arms race unfolde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
