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The fleet of ironclads at Portland Harbour, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

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The fleet of ironclads at Portland Harbour, 1872. Engraving from a photograph by Edgar Cox. Sailors manning the yards of Royal Navy warships. 'The combined naval squadrons lying at Portland, under the command of Rear-Admiral Hornby, consisted of the following ships: The Minotaur; the Agincourt; the Achilles; the Sultan; the Hector; the Hercules; the Penelope; the Audacious; the Vanguard; the Valiant; the Bellerophon; the Black Prince; the Resistance; the Northumberland; the Favourite; the Boscawen; the Lively, and five training-brigs. The fifteen large vessels are all broadside ironclads, and their nominal steam value ranges from the Minotaur's engines of 1350 to the Favourite's of 400 horse-power. The fleet lay in three columns, each of five ships, inside the breakwater. They carried flags at all their mastheads and at their sterns'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A79_349

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64,0Mo (5,0Mo) / 47,4cm x 33,8cm / 5603 x 3994 (300dpi)

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