Turret ship
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Turret of USS Monitor, one of the first turret-armed warships Turret ships were a 19th-century type of warship, the earliest to have their guns mounted in a revolving gun turret, instead of a broadside arrangement.
HMS Prince Albert, a pioneering turret ship, built by naval engineer Cowper Phipps Coles.
Before the development of large-calibre, long-range guns in the mid-19th century, the classic ship of the line design used rows of port-mounted guns on each side of the ship, often mounted in casemates.
Firepower was provided by a large number of guns which could only be aimed in a limited arc from one side of the ship.
Due to instability, fewer larger and heavier guns can be carried on a ship.
Also, the casemates often sat near the waterline, which made them vulnerable to flooding and restricted their use to calm seas.
Turrets were weapon mounts designed to protect the crew and mechanism of the artillery piece and with the capability of being aimed and fired in many directions as a rotating weapon platform.
This platform can be mounted on a fortified building or structure such as an anti-naval land battery, or on a combat vehicle, a naval ship, or a military aircraft.
Designs for a rotating gun turret date back to the late 18th century.
Practical rotating turret warships were independently developed in Great Britain and the United States with the availability of steam power in the mid-19th Century.
HMS Captain was one of the first ocean-going turret ships.
During the Crimean War, Captain Cowper Phipps Coles of the British Royal Navy constructed a raft with guns protected by a 'cupola' and used the raft, named Lady Nancy, to shell the Russian town of Taganrog in the Black Sea.
Lady Nancy "proved a great success", and Coles patented his rotating turret after the war.
Following Coles' patenting, the British Admiralty ordered a prototype of Coles' design in 18...