"Coastal Defence Ships" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Oct 2015 9:51 p.m. PST |
"One aspect of naval warfare that has always interested me is coastal defence, whether it be land-based or specially-designed coastal defence ships. The Royal Navy did build some armoured coastal defence ships during the later part of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries, but it was the Baltic navies that built significant numbers of these ships. (I have always considered that the monitors built and used by the Royal Navy during the First World War were coastal offence ships rather than coastal defence ships, but that the main difference between the two types of ship was the role for which they were originally designed rather than the use that they were actually put to.)…"
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