This meant that the later broadside ironclads housed a main battery of a dozen guns or less in a relatively small armoured box amidships.
Oku kwathetha okokuba iinqanawa ezikhuselweyo ezinecala elingasemva eliphezu kwamanzi zihlalise ibhethri enkulu yemipu elishumi nambini okanye nangaphantsi kwibhokisi enqatyisiweyo encinane kumphakathi weenqanawa.