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Brazilian Coastal Defense Ship Floriano
''Floriano'' was a ''Deodoro''-class coastal defense ship built for the Brazilian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. Footnotes Endnotes Bibliography * *Floriano" ''Serviço de Documentação da Marinha — Histórico de Navios''. Diretoria do Patrimônio Histórico e Documentação da Marinha, Departamento de História Marítima. Accessed 19 August 2017. * * * * * * Further reading * * Ships of the Brazilian Navy Marshal Deodoro-class coastal defense ship 1898 ships {{Brazil-mil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floriano Peixoto
Floriano Vieira Peixoto ( 30 April 1839 – 29 June 1895), born in Ipioca (today a district of the city of Maceió in the State of Alagoas), nicknamed the "Iron Marshal", was a Brazilian soldier and politician, a veteran of the Paraguayan War, and the second president of Brazil. He was the first vice president of Brazil to have succeeded the president mid-term. Election Peixoto was an army marshal when elected vice-president in February 1891. In November 1891, he rose to the presidency after the resignation of Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, the first president of Brazil. Peixoto came to the presidency in a difficult period of the new Brazilian Republic, which was in the midst of a general political and economic crisis made worse by the effects of the bursting of the Encilhamento economic bubble. As Vice President, he had also served as the President of the Senate. Presidency His government was marked by several revolutions. Peixoto defeated a naval officers' rebellion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QF 1-pounder Pom-pom
The QF 1 pounder, universally known as the pom-pom due to the sound of its discharge, was a 37 mm British autocannon, the first of its type in the world. It was used by several countries initially as an infantry gun and later as a light anti-aircraft gun. History Hiram Maxim originally designed the Pom-Pom in the late 1880s as an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun. Its longer range necessitated exploding projectiles to judge range, which in turn dictated a shell weight of at least , as that was the lightest exploding shell allowed under the Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 and reaffirmed in the Hague Convention of 1899. Early versions were sold under the Maxim-Nordenfelt label, whereas versions in British service (i.e. from 1900) were labelled Vickers, Sons and Maxim (VSM) as Vickers had bought out Maxim-Nordenfelt in 1897 but they are the same gun. Service by nation Belgium The Belgian Army used the gun on a high-angle field carriage mounting. Finlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ships Of The Brazilian Navy
This is a list of active ships of the Brazilian Navy, complete and correct as of 2018. The Navy has approximately 134 ships in commission, including 39 auxiliary ships. 8 frigates/corvettes, 7 conventional attack submarines and 1 helicopter carrier. Current ships Submarines File:S-33 Submarino Tapajó %2824772621755%29.jpg, ''Tapajó'' (''Tupi'' class) File:Submarino Tikuna (5) (5433943346).jpg, ''Tikuna'' File:S40 Riachuelo.png, ''Riachuelo'' (Scorpène class) Helicopter carrier File:Operação "Poseidon 2021" (51476057384).jpg, ''Atlântico'' Amphibious warfare File:072-ndm-bahia ABC 3037-2 (32625060721).jpg, ''Bahia'' (''Foudre'' class) File:G 28 - Mattoso Maia (7203310692).jpg, ''Mattoso Maia'' (''Newport'' class) File:Aspirantex 2020 (49489124497).jpg, ''Almirante Sabóia'' (Round Table class) Major surface combatants File:04 10 2021 - Demonstração de Lançamento de Armas pela Esquadra (51552084989).jpg, ''União'' (''Niterói'' class) File:F 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coastal Defense Ship
Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of Littoral (military), coastal defence, mostly during the period from 1860 to 1920. They were small, often cruiser-sized warships that sacrificed speed and range for armour and armament. They were usually attractive to nations that either could not afford full-sized battleships or could be satisfied by specially designed shallow-draft vessels capable of littoral operations close to their own shores. The Nordic countries and Thailand found them particularly appropriate for their island-dotted coastal waters. Some vessels had limited Blue-water navy, blue-water capabilities; others operated in Maritime geography#Riverine, rivers. The coastal defence ships differed from earlier Monitor (warship), monitors by having a higher Freeboard (nautical), freeboard and usually possessing both higher speed and a secondary armament; some examples also mounted casemated gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deodoro-class Coastal Defense Ship
The ''Deodoro'' class were two French-designed and built coastal defense battleships built for the Brazilian Navy in the late 1890s. Upon their completion, ''Scientific American'' called them small vessels of a type "built only for second-rate naval powers," but also noted that it was a "wonder ... so much armor and armament could be carried" on a ship of its size. They served the Brazilian Navy as its only modern armored warships until the arrival of two dreadnoughts in 1910.Lyon, p. 407 About The ships had a low freeboard and long superstructures with single-gun main turrets arranged at each end. Their secondary batteries were also mounted at each end of the superstructure, albeit in casemate A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which artillery, guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary When referring to Ancient history, antiquity, th ...s in each corner. All used British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gun Turret
A gun turret (or simply turret) is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn and aim. A modern gun turret is generally a rotatable weapon mount that houses the crew or mechanism of a projectile-firing weapon and at the same time lets the weapon be aimed and fired in some degree of azimuth and elevation (cone of fire). Description Rotating gun turrets protect the weapon and its crew as they rotate. When this meaning of the word "turret" started being used at the beginning of the 1860s, turrets were normally cylindrical. Barbettes were an alternative to turrets; with a barbette the protection was fixed, and the weapon and crew were on a rotating platform inside the barbette. In the 1890s, armoured hoods (also known as "gun houses") were added to barbettes; these rotated with the platform (hence the term "hooded barbette"). By the early 20th Century, these hoods were known as turrets. Modern warships have gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casemate
A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which artillery, guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary When referring to Ancient history, antiquity, the term "casemate wall" means a double city wall with the space between the walls separated into chambers, which could be filled up to better withstand battering rams in case of siege (see #Antiquity: casemate wall, Antiquity: casemate wall). In its original early modern meaning, the term referred to a vaulted chamber in a fort, which may have been used for storage, accommodation, or artillery which could fire through an opening or embrasure. Although the outward faces of brick or masonry casemates proved vulnerable to advances in artillery performance, the invention of reinforced concrete allowed newer designs to be produced well into the 20th century. With the introduction of ironclad warships, the definition was widened to include a prot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belt Armor
Belt armor is a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships, typically on battleships, battlecruisers and cruisers, and aircraft carriers. The belt armor is designed to prevent projectiles from penetrating to the heart of a warship. When struck by an artillery shell or underwater torpedo, the belt armor either absorbs the impact and explosion with its sheer thickness and strength, or else uses sloping to redirect the projectile and its blast downwards. Typically, the main armor belt covers the warship from its main deck down to some distance below the waterline. If, instead of forming the outer hull, the armor belt is built inside the hull, it is installed at a sloped angle for improved protection, as described above. The torpedo bulkhead Frequently, the main belt's armor plates were supplemented with a torpedo bulkhead spaced several meters behind the main belt, designed to maintain the ship's watertight integrity even if the main belt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torpedo Tubes
A torpedo tube is a cylindrical device for launching torpedoes. There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units (also referred to as torpedo launchers) installed aboard surface vessels. Deck-mounted torpedo launchers are usually designed for a specific type of torpedo, while submarine torpedo tubes are general-purpose launchers, and are often also capable of deploying mines and cruise missiles. Most modern launchers are standardized on a diameter for light torpedoes (deck mounted aboard ship) or a diameter for heavy torpedoes (underwater tubes), although other sizes of torpedo tube have been used: see Torpedo classes and diameters. Submarine torpedo tube A submarine torpedo tube is a more complex mechanism than a torpedo tube on a surface ship, because the tube has to accomplish the function of moving the torpedo from the normal atmospheric pressure within the submarine into the sea at the ambient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British 18 Inch Torpedo
There have been a number of 18-inch torpedoes in service with the United Kingdom. These have been used on ships of the Royal Navy and aircraft of both the Fleet Air Arm and Royal Air Force, while Royal Navy surface ships and submarines use 21-inch torpedoes. The British "18-inch" torpedoes were in diameter, beginning with the "Fiume" Whitehead torpedo of 1890. 45 cm "Fiume" (Whitehead) torpedo First introduced into British service in 1894. * Year : about 1888 * Weight : * Length : * Warhead : wet gun-cotton * Performance : for * Propulsion : Compressed air Mark V Used on the River-class and 1905 Tribal-class destroyers. * Year : about 1899 * Weight : * Warhead : including pistol * Propulsion : Compressed air Mark VI Used on destroyers of the early 1900s. * Year : about 1904 * Performance : for or for * Propulsion : Compressed air Mark VII and VII* Introduced on the 1908 members of the 1905 Tribal class destroyers. Used by torpedo boats built before t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotchkiss Gun
The Hotchkiss gun can refer to different products of the Hotchkiss arms company starting in the late 19th century. It usually refers to the 1.65-inch (42 mm) light mountain gun; there were also a navy (47 mm) and a 3-inch (76 mm) Hotchkiss guns. The 42 mm gun was intended to be mounted on a light carriage or packed on two mules to accompany a troop of cavalry or an army travelling in rough country. Descriptions 1.65-inch gun The gun and accessories could be packed on two mules. The gun was introduced as a modern replacement for the aging twelve-pounder mountain howitzer. The first gun purchased by the U.S. military from the French arms firm of Hotchkiss was employed against the Nez Percé in 1877. Over the next twenty years the U.S. purchased 56. They were used at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, and again in Cuba at the Battle of Las Guasimas, the Battle of El Caney and the attack on San Juan Hill during the Spanish–American War of 1898. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société Nouvelle Des Forges Et Chantiers De La Méditerranée
The ''Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée'' (FCM) was a French shipbuilding company. The ''Société des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée'' was founded in 1853 by Philip Taylor and subsequently incorporated in 1856 in the newly established joint stock company ''Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée'' founded by Armand Béhic. It eventually had shipyards in La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon, and in Graville, now part of Le Havre. After going into insolvency in 1966, the company was absorbed into the ''Constructions industrielles de la Méditerranée''. The company also produced tanks before World War II, most notably FCM 2C and FCM 36. Some ships built * (1874) * (1865) — first ironclad to circumnavigate the Earth * (1879) * Spanish pre-dreadnought battleship (1888) * (1889) * (1889) * Chilean cruiser ''Presidente Errázuriz'' (1890) * Chilean cruiser ''Presidente Pinto'' (1890) - shipwreck 1905 * (1890) * (1890 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
