Coles

Cowper Phipps, an English naval architect; born in Hampshire in 1819. In 1855 he constructed a gun-raft which was favorably reported on; ultimately produced a form of turret-ship,. the general idea of which had probably occurred to him independently, although its development owed much to the invention of John Eric on. A ve el was built from his designs, and on Sept. 7, 1870 turned bottom — in a gale and sank off Cape Finisterre, almost all on board, including Coles, being drowned.