Friends of the Cerberus

1- Launched in 1868 Cerberus is the only remaining Monitor warship left in the world.
2- Cerberus was the first Modern Battleship.
3- Cerberus was the first British warship to dispense completely with sail power and to incorporate the shallow draft.
4- Cerberus was the first Monitor having a central superstructure.
5- The design for the Cerberus was the first in the world to incorporate the combination of a central superstructure with fore and aft gun turrets.
6- Cerberus is the only substantially intact surviving warship of any of Australia's pre-Federation colonial navies.
7- Cerberus is the oldest as well as the only surviving warship, to have served in the Royal Australian Navy.
8- Cerberus was the flagship and most powerful warship of the Victorian Navy.
9- Cerberus incorporated the latest developments in metallurgy, steam power, gun turrets and the use of low freeboard.
10-Cerberus was the first armoured warship built for Australia.

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