Armored citadel

A schematic of the HMS Inflexible depicting her rectangular citadel in the centre.

In a ship an armored citadel is an armored box enclosing the machinery and magazine spaces. It was formed by the armored deck, the waterline belt and the transverse bulkheads.[1]

Citations

  1. Raven and Roberts, p. 9

Bibliography

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