In the 1850s, the British and French navies deployed iron-armoured floating batteries as a supplement to the wooden steam battlefleet in the Crimean War.
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Siege of Gibraltar, when the artillery under his direction set fire to and destroyed all the floating batteries of the combined forces of France and Spain.
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Batteries firing at the British flotilla from the Lower Town of Quebec, as well as the floating batteries pursuing it, were unable to prevent the crossing.
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In 1781, he blockaded the British-held island of Minorca and soon took part in the Great Siege of Gibraltar as commander of the floating batteries.
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The subject of the painting took place during the Great Siege of Gibraltar when the Spanish built purpose built ships that were floating batteries designed to be unsinkable.
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In 1794 " Albion " was consigned to the role of a 60-gun floating battery armed with heavy carronades and moored on the Thames Estuary.
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She did not actively participate in many operations, since the heavier Soviet naval units never left Leningrad, where they were used as floating batteries during the siege.
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The British encountered heavy resistance, partly because they had not spotted the low-lying floating batteries, and partly because of the courage with which the Danes fought.
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In an aircraft installation with a floating battery electrical system the regulator voltage is set to charge the battery at constant potential charge ( typically 14 or 28 V ).
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Forces involved in this were as follows : Russian : 7 galleys, 7 double-sloops, 7 floating batteries, 7 " decked boats " and 22 gunboats.
