The Formidable class of battleships were a three-ship class of pre-dreadnoughts designed by Sir William White and built for the Royal Navy in the late 1890s. The class comprised Formidable, Irresistib
HMS Implacable at Spithead in 1909.
Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1906
Right elevation of 12 inch gun turret & ammunition hoists
Irresistible listing and sinking in the Dardanelles, 18 March 1915. Photograph taken from the battleship Lord Nelson
The Canopus class was a group of six pre-dreadnought battleships of the British Royal Navy built in the late 1890s. The ships were designed by the Director of Naval Construction, William White, for us
HMS Glory
Illustration of Canopus in 1900, by Fred T. Jane
Crew on the forward deck of a Canopus-class battleship, c. 1905
Right elevation of 12-inch gun turret and ammunition hoists in the BIV mounting