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This is a bit of a predecessor, a flat-iron boat. A large gun incapable of transversing mounted on a small boat/ship with little freeboard built during the transition to purely iron/steel ships with steam power intended for coastal or river use.

Later ships, as technology evolved, added a superstructure. This gave a place to direct the gun(s) along with rangefinder.

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TroubleFlat2233@reddit

so like a Tug Stug?

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hifumiyo1@reddit

*chefs kiss*

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chef-rach-bitch@reddit

It's beautiful!

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TestyBoy13@reddit

It’s a monitor. The idea was that you put a massive fuckass battleship gun on a river boat and it can provide battleship level bombardment support in places battleships can’t reach such as rivers and shallow waters. Sometimes they were used in patrols of less important sea lanes during wars when battleships were needed elsewhere

Here’s another example with HMS Terror back in WW2

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Stranger_NN@reddit

HMS Drudge: This was a British experimental gunboat launched in 1887.
Experimental armament: The ship is known for being equipped with a heavy 9.2-inch (234 mm) gun.

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SavageHatesYouV2@reddit

Do now.

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BriocheTressee@reddit

r/shippytechnicals

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Obvious-Hunt19@reddit

Oh hell yeah!

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Apprehensive-Rip5936@reddit

Damn, that’s badass subreddit. Thx for the link! Got any of those narcosubs?

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Astral_sailer@reddit

I love HMS drudge

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Apprehensive-Rip5936@reddit

I think adding the monitor boats from the Vietnam War would be a splendid idea. Let’s keep to the modified versions though (plenty of innovations by the US “Brown Water Navy”).

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_moondust@reddit

Floating frisbee

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WolFlow2021@reddit

That is so cool. I want to have a model of that.

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_moondust@reddit

Yep, just like Shaun said, it's the Russian Novgorod monitor

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Shaun_Jones@reddit

Novgorod

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hydrogen18@reddit

Roundboat can't hurt you, it's not real

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burchkj@reddit

Do you have more info? Shippytechnicals are great also

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xrelaht@reddit

It’s the HMS Drudge, a UK flat iron gunship. Built for testing battleship guns, later used for shore bombardment in WW1.

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Dpek1234@reddit

Iirc Drach made a video on it on some point if you can find it

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13curseyoukhan@reddit (OP)

That's where I saw it.

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ShermanMcTank@reddit

Don’t forget General Wolfe, the queen of ridiculous monitors.

Originally a more standard monitor, she was modified (along with her sisters Lord Clive and Prince Eugene) to receive the 18 inch gun originally meant for the Furious-class Battlecruisers. These were at the time the biggest guns ever mounted on a warship.

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Shaun_Jones@reddit

In some ways it’s still the biggest; although the Yamato was larger caliber by three millimeters, the British 18-inch fired a slightly heavier shell.

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jnievele@reddit

If that's the queen, the Novgorod is the Tsar of monitors...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_monitor_Novgorod

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shoobe01@reddit

Warboat.

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MajorGef@reddit

HMS Drudge: Drachinifel did a segment on her here

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foremastjack@reddit

It’s a modified Rendel gunboat, commonly called a “flatiron gunboat”. My Great Uncle was trained in gunnery on one of these (the delightfully named HMS Handy). They were originally built in the 1880s, and lasted a very long time.

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13curseyoukhan@reddit (OP)

Thank you for that. I forgot to mention a key detail: It is the HMS Drudge.

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It was later used to transport slag and then converted into a salvage vessel.

Launched: 8 June 1887 Scrapped: January 1969

https://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/D-Ships/drudge1887.html

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