A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship. == History == During the capture of Mahdia in 1550, Spanish captain Garcia de Toledo Osorio built a floating battery to bombard the city.
A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship. == History == During the capture of Mahdia in 1550, Spanish captain Garcia de Toledo Osorio built a floating battery to bombard the city.
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