Bruce Taylor | U.S. Naval Institute

Articles by Bruce Taylor

8 October 1879: Smoke fills the air in the engagement between the Peruvian turret ship Huáscar (left) and the Chilean central battery ship Almirante Cochrane—the culmination of the naval side of the War of the Pacific. The battle resulted in the Chilean Navy’s capture of the Huáscar, which lives on as a museum ship.

A Global Phenomenon

By Bruce Taylor

June 2020

From Kinburn in 1855 to the Yalu River in 1894, the age of the ironclad wrought a revolution in naval warfare.

Books by Bruce Taylor

The World of Battleship

Hardcover