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unusual facts about Coastal defence ship


Coastal defence ship

Some nations which at one time or another built, bought, or otherwise acquired their own front-line capital ships, such as Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Brazil, China, Germany, Russia, and Spain, also deployed this type of warship, with Russia using three at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905.


Archibald Murray

However the six British tanks, the British heavy guns and naval gunfire from the French coastal defence ship Requin and two British monitors (M21 and M31) did little damage and only served to warn the Turks of the imminent British attack which faltered at all points.

Battle of Gratangen

Sinking the outdated Norwegian coastal defence ships Norge and Eidsvold with great loss of life and bluffing the Norwegian land forces into surrender.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

The Norwegian coastal defence ship HNoMS Norge was sent to convey his remains back to his own land.

HSwMS Sverige

Note that while the ship is listed as a battleship in Jane's Fighting Ships, 1938 edition, technically it is a Coastal Defence Ship, a class which was commonly used in Nordic countries.

Koningin Regentes-class coastal defense ship

The Koningin Regentes class was a class of coastal defence ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Operation Kilpapurjehdus

The landing involved over 20 cargo ships, the two coastal defence ships Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen, as well as the three gunboats Uusimaa, Hämeenmaa and Karjala.

Viljo Revell

He served as naval artillery officer in World War II, and he was one of the survivors of the sinking of the Finnish Navy flagship, the coastal defence ship Ilmarinen in 1941.


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