Wednesday 22 June 2011

Ramming speed!

During the late Victorian period it became popular to design battleships with rams following Rear Admiral Von Tegetthoff desperate, but successful, use of ramming during the Battle of Vis; and ramming did sink a lot of ships. one of them was the HMS Victoria which sank on June 22 1885 with 358 deaths including Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. Unfortunately the ship which rammed her was HMS Camperdown, oops.

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