HMS Abyssinia
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hms-abyssinia-278-13238479
title:
HMS Abyssinia
text:
HMS Abyssinia was a breastwork monitor ordered, designed and built by J & W Dudgeon specifically for the Bombay Marine for the defence of the harbour at Bombay. She was designed by Sir Edward Reed, and was a smaller version of, and hence a half-sister to, the Cerberus-class monitors Cerberus and Magdala. It was intended that Abyssinia and Magdala would serve in mutual support on the same station. Given that the stipulated naval requirement was for two ships for the coastal defence of the Bombay
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Breastwork monitor
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Abyssinia
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date modified:
2023-12-28T13:11:46Z
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13
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