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Honour - Crimea 1854-55 |
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| Description |
Following the outbreak of war between Turkey and Russia, and Russian/Turkish
Fleet action off the port of Sinope in Northern Turkey, Britain and France
entered the war on the Turkish side. In Sep-1854 a joint Anglo-French-Turkish force of about 60,000 landed near Sevastopol and laid siege to it. During the bombardment, it was shown how superior an armoured steamship firing explosive shells was to a wooden ship firing solid shot. Sevastopol surrendered Sep-1855 after their fleet had been scuttled. However actions continued in the Sea of Azov until Nov-1855. The significance of the actions was that they showed the power of the prototype modern battleship. It marked the end of the era of wooden line-of-battle ships.
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| HM Ships | ||||
| Agamemnon 1854-55 | Albion 1854-55 | Algiers 1854-55 | Apollo 1854 | Ardent 1854-55 |
| Arethusa 1854 | Arrow 1854-55 | |||
| Banshee 1854-55 | Beagle 1854-55 | Bellerophon 1854 | Boxer 1855 | Brenda 1854 |
| Britannia 1854 | ||||
| Camel 1855 | Caradoc 1854-55 | Circassia 1854 | Clinker 1855 | Cracker 1855 |
| Curacoa 1855 | Curlew 1854-55 | Cyclops 1854-55 | ||
| Danube 1854-55 | Dauntless 1854-55 | Diamond 1854-55 | ||
| Fancy 1855 | Firebrand 1854-55 | Firm 1855 | Flamer 1855 | Furious 1854-55 |
| Fury 1854 | ||||
| Gladiator 1854-55 | Glatton 1855 | Grinder 1855 | ||
| Hannibal 1855 | Hardy 1855 | Harpy 1854-55 | Highflyer 1854-55 | |
| Industry 1854-55 | Inflexible 1854-55 | |||
| Jasper 1855 | ||||
| Leander 1854-55 | Leopard 1855 | London 1854-55 | Lynx 1854-55 | |
| Magnet 1855 | Medina 1854-55 | Megaera 1854-55 | Meteor 1855 | Minna 1854 |
| Miranda 1854-55 | Modeste 1854 | Moslem 1855 | ||
| Niger 1854-55 | ||||
| Oberon 1855 | Odin 1855 | Oneida 1855 | ||
| Pigmy 1854 | Princess Royal 1855 | Queen 1854-55 | ||
| Raven 1855 | Recruit 1855 | Retribution 1854 | Rodney 1854-55 | Royal Albert 1854-55 |
| St. Jean d'Acre 1855 | Sampson 1854 | Sans Pareil 1854 | Shark 1854 | Sidon 1854-55 |
| Simoom 1854-55 | Snake 1855 | Sphinx 1854-55 | Spiteful 1854-55 | Spitfire 1854-55 |
| Stromboli 1854-55 | Sulina 1855 | Swallow 1854-55 | ||
| Terrible 1854-55 | Trafalgar 1854 | Tribune 1854-55 | Triton 1854-55 | |
| Valorous 1854-55 | Varna 1854 | Vengeance 1854 | Vesuvius 1854-55 | Viper 1854-55 |
| Vulcan 1854-55 | ||||
| Wasp 1854-55 | Weser 1855 | Wrangler 1855 | ||
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This page last edited -
21 February, 2013.
Copyright © Ian M King, except where otherwise indicated. |
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