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The box battery is a disposition of the main armament in a battleship, commonly used in ships built in the latter half of the 19th century. A box battery consists of a thick armour surrounding a central battery to protect the guns.[1] It was an interim disposition between full-length broadside guns and turret-mounted artillery.
- ^ Biles, Sir John Harvard (1919). The Design and Construction of Ships. C. Griffin and Company. pp. 56–57.