19th Century Pre-dreadnought British battleships at sea. Built between the mid- to late- 1880s and 1905, they replaced the ironclad battleships of the 1870s and 1880s. Built from steel, protected by case-hardened steel armour, and powered by coal-fired triple-expansion steam engines, pre-dreadnought battleships carried a main battery of very heavy guns in fully-enclosed rotating turrets supported by one or more secondary batteries of lighter weapons.

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Location: At Sea
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
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