"Disaster at Gibraltar – SS Utopia and HMS Anson, 1891" Topic
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| Tango01 | 14 Jun 2018 3:21 p.m. PST |
"In 1866, at the naval battle of Lissa, in the Adriatic, victory was secured by the Austro-Hungarian fleet over its Italian enemy by means of ramming. Though this was a unique event in a fleet-action, and made possible only by factors – such as short effective gun ranges – which were soon obviated by technical progress, naval architects where to be fixated in the decades at followed on designing ram bows into warships of all sizes…."
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snapped some photos of games he didn't get a chance to play in at Council of Five Nations.
