//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a>'s <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a> gunboats. These are the first instance of "mass-production" techniques being applied to marine engineering as the following quotation from the obituary from <i><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> of 24 January 1887 to Sir Joseph Whitworth (1803–1887) shows:</p>
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<p>The Crimean 