- Joined
- Mar 31, 2012
- Location
- Central Ohio
Significantly post-CW but still of interest, from the Navy's photographic curator's photostream:
[Lot 9609-14: Royal Navy (British) during the First World War. Belgian Coast Operations. Royal Navy Ney-class monitor, HMS Marshal Soult, showing her 16” guns. Collection was transferred from a British government source in 1920 to the Library of Congress.]
(For those wondering why the turret is way up in the air like that, it's basically a battleship barbette-and-hood ("turret") on a much lighter-draft hull. In a battleship, the same structure would be present, but most of it would be "sunk" into the deeper hull.)
[Lot 9609-14: Royal Navy (British) during the First World War. Belgian Coast Operations. Royal Navy Ney-class monitor, HMS Marshal Soult, showing her 16” guns. Collection was transferred from a British government source in 1920 to the Library of Congress.]
(For those wondering why the turret is way up in the air like that, it's basically a battleship barbette-and-hood ("turret") on a much lighter-draft hull. In a battleship, the same structure would be present, but most of it would be "sunk" into the deeper hull.)