![]() ![]() Devastation was the first class of ocean-going battleships that did not carry sails. īy 1873, the Age of Sail for warships had ended, with HMS Devastation commissioned in 1871. The Suez Canal in the Middle East, which opened in 1869, was more practical for steamships than for sailing ships, achieving a much shorter European-Asian sea route, which coincided with more fuel-efficient steamships, starting with Agamemnon in 1865. ![]() In the March 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads, the ironclad CSS Virginia fought USS Monitor, making this the first fight between ironclads. The first ironclad battleship, Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in November 1859. ![]() Multiple steam battleships saw action during the Crimean war, especially the Allied (British, French and Ottoman) fleet Bombardment of Sevastopol as part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855). The first purpose-built steam battleship was the 90-gun Napoléon in 1850. She carried passengers and freight to Paris in 1822 at an average speed of 8 knots (9 mph, 14 km/h). The first iron steamship to go to sea was the 116-ton Aaron Manby, built in 1821 by Aaron Manby at the Horseley Ironworks, and became the first iron-built vessel to put to sea when she crossed the English Channel in 1822, arriving in Paris on 22 June. The first sea-going steamboat was Richard Wright's first steamboat Experiment, an ex-French lugger she steamed from Leeds to Yarmouth in July 1813. clippers and windjammers), is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age of Sail". The period between the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, when sailing vessels reached their peak of size and complexity (e.g. Several of Zheng He's 15th century ships as depicted on a woodblock print, early 17th centuryįor warships, the age of sail runs roughly from the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the last significant engagement in which oar-propelled galleys played a major role, to the development of steam-powered warships. ![]()
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