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- Beneath her upperworks, the round-bottomed hull is wide and long.
- The vessels were painted blue with white upperworks and formed the First Research Squadron.
- She was the first ship of composite construction in the Royal Navy, with iron upperworks.
- Paravanes streamed from her bows, and Marines were stationed in her upperworks to sink or explode floating mines.
- At the same date,'top riders', angled reinforcing timbers for the upperworks, were discontinued.
- Her upperworks were removed and replaced by new fore and aft superstructures and two upright funnels modelled on the contemporary cruisers.
- The main difference between a swing yarder and a tower yarder is that the upperworks is mounted on a large grapple to the desired location.
- Paint schemes were selected on the basis of ease of maintenance or aesthetics, typically buff upperworks ( with polished brass fittings ) and white or black hulls.
- Tons of explosives were used to demolish her upperworks and drive her hull deep into the mud; by January 1959, they were successful and she remains there today.
- As the British pilots did not release their ordnance from the optimal altitude, " Tirpitz " suffered extensive damage to her upperworks but her deck armor remained intact.
- In 1651 she was again made more manoeuvrable by reducing upperworks after which she was described as " a delicate frigate ( I think the whole world hath not her like ) ".
- On 6 February 1892, she collided with the German steamer " Gutenfels " in the Suez Canal . " Gutenfels " suffered several broken plates and some damage to her upperworks.
- On 1 July, " Arkansas " was exposed to an air burst in ABLE, but survived with extensive shock damage to her upperworks, while her hull and armored turrets were lightly damaged.
- Like the larger 74 which was developed at the same time, the new frigates sailed well and were good fighting vessels due to a combination of long hulls and low upperworks compared to vessels of comparable size and firepower.
- Most of her guns were replaced by howitzers, flame-throwers and mole, and her upperworks were badly damaged by gunfire, her Captain, Alfred Carpenter was awarded a Victoria Cross for his actions during the raid.
- At the time, large numbers of smaller calibre guns contributing to the broadside were thought to be of great value in demolishing a ship's upperworks and secondary armaments, as distances of battle were limited by fire control and weapon performance.
- She initially carried the white and blue livery of Manx Line, but after this company ran into financial difficulties and was taken over by British Rail-Sealink, she received the BR corporate monastral blue hull, white upperworks and red funnel.
- Their discussion and conclusions show very clearly that they knew what had happened, and their verdict was summed up very clearly by one of the captains, who said that the ship did not have enough " belly " to carry the heavy upperworks.
- They were considered the most successful British frigate design of the period, much prized by the Navy Board; after the prototype was launched in 1804 ( by which time four more frigates had already been ordered to the same design ), a further eleven sister-ships were ordered to her design, although this was slightly modified ( in 1805 ) to have the gangways between forecastle and quarterdeck more integrated into the upperworks, a step towards the final enclosure of the waist.
- "Whitehall " saw her final action on 8 and 9 March 1862 against the Confederate ironclad Battle of the " Monitor " and " Merrimack " on 9 March 1862, " Whitehall " and the rest of the Union fleet abstained from direct battle, preferring to fire long-range, ineffective shots at " Virginia " . " Whitehall " suffered three casualties and had parts of her upperworks burned by Confederate shot during the two days of activity.