| Cowper P. Coles |
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| 1819 births | |
| 1870 deaths | |
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He entered the Royal Navy at the age of eleven. Coles distinguished himself at the Battle Of Sebastopol during the 1850s in the Crimean War against Russia , when building a Raft and floating next to the Russian beach installations to attack them. He started to get the Navy interested in a new ship class, like a larger, well-armed raft, but peace lowered the interest considerably. Switching his focus on mounting turret guns on ships, he managed to convice Prince Albert to build an iron-armored turret-gun prototype for ships, and eventually, a small ship was retrofitted with these guns. Coles is best remembered as the designer of the turret-ship HMS ''Captain'' , commissioned in 1870, which Capsize d on its Maiden Voyage off Cape Finisterre , with Coles on board, and drowned him and most of his crew of 500 men. Coles had three girls and six boys with his wife Emily Pearson, whom he married in 1856. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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