The Royal Sovereign class was a group of eight pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. The ships spent their careers in the Mediterranean, Home and Channel Fleets, sometimes
The high-freeboard Royal Sovereign underway in a moderate sea
Right elevation, deck plan and hull section as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1906
The low-freeboard Hood equipped with turrets
The barbette-equipped Empress of India
Trafalgar-class ironclad
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The two Trafalgar-class battleships of the British Royal Navy were late-nineteenth-century ironclad warships. Both were named after naval battles won by the British during the Napoleonic Wars under th
Royal Sovereign-class battleship
…in 1888 and the Board of Admiralty directed the Director of Naval Construction, Sir William White, to design an improved and enlarged version of the Trafalgar class. These ships were equipped with gun turrets, the weight of which dictated that they be low-freeboard ships to reduce their topweight. White, however…
HMS Trafalgar
Starboard elevation and deck plan, according to Brassey's annual 1888–9, showing the original planned secondary armament of eight 5-inch guns