HMS Repulse (1868)
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HMS Repulse was a wooden-hulled, central-battery ironclad built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. She was laid down as a 91-gun, second-rate Bulwark-class ship of the line, but work on the ship was
Right profile of Repulse
HMS Prince of Wales (1860)
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HMS Prince of Wales was a 121-gun, first-rate, modified Queen-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy during the 1850s. She was converted to screw-propulsion whilst still under construction. C
HMS Repulse (1868)
…3,734 tons burthen. She displaced 6,190 long tons (6,290 t). The ironclad received her 800-nominal-horsepower engine from the 121-gun, first-rate HMS Prince of Wales. It was a horizontal, two-cylinder trunk steam engine built by John Penn and Sons that drove a single two-bladed, 19-foot (5.8 m) screw propeller. This…
Britannia (left) and Hindostan, photographed in 1878
A photograph of the future King George V and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor, dated by George 1878, as cadets on board the Britannia