The central battery ship, also known as a centre battery ship in the United Kingdom and as a casemate ship in European continental navies, was a development of the broadside ironclad of the 1860s, giv
Plan of HMS Alexandra
24 cm gun model 1884 in an ironclad
Central battery ironclad of the Royal Navy at anchor, ca.1860
The 26 cm RK L/20 was a gun from a family of Krupp naval artillery guns designed in the late 1860s. The gun resembled the 26 cm RK L/22, but was shorter, so it could be used in the central battery of