HMS Monarch (1868)
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HMS Monarch was the first seagoing British warship to carry her guns in turrets, and the first British warship to carry guns of 12-inch calibre.
Painting of HMS Monarch by William Frederick Mitchell
Diagrams showing location of gun turrets and armour protection, as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1888
Monarch after her 1872 conversion to barque rig.
The dispersal of the International Fleet on 5 December 1880 convened for enforcing the Treaty of Berlin. The Graphic 1880
Bombardment of Alexandria
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The Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt by the British Mediterranean Fleet took place on 11–13 July 1882. Admiral Beauchamp Seymour was in command of a fleet of fifteen Royal Navy ironclad ships which
HMS Monarch (1868)
…Plymouth. In 1876 she was posted to the Mediterranean, where she served until 1885, with a short refit at home in 1877. She was present and active at the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 under command of Captain H Fairfax, firing 125 12-inch (300 mm) shells at the Egyptian forts. She was ordered to Malta in the Russian war scare…
Alexandria in ruins after the bombardment
British ships shelling Alexandria by a French artist.
A view of the bombardment by an artist in Cairo.
Photo in Alexandria after the bombardment and fire of 11–13 July 1882.