HMS Magdala

HMS Magdala was a Cerberus-class breastwork monitor of the Royal Navy, built specifically to serve as a coastal defence ship for the harbour of Bombay in the late 1860s. She was ordered by the India Office for the Bombay Marine. The original specifications were thought to be too expensive and a cheaper design was ordered. While limited to harbour defence duties, the breastwork monitors were described by Admiral George Alexander Ballard as being like "full-armoured knights riding on donkeys, easy to avoid but bad to close with." Aside from gunnery practice Magdala remained in Bombay Harbour for her entire career. The ship was sold for scrap in 1903.

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1870  Wikidata
Cerberus-class monitor, monitor, Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Royal Navy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 

• The Victorian Royal Navy page^@
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1870 HMS Magdala

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ship launching

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keel laying

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ship completed

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Frameless

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link	page		The Victorian Royal Navy page@		Wikidata