Cowper Phipps Coles

Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, C.B., R.N. (1819 – 7 September 1870), the son of the Reverend John Coles and his wife Mary Ann Goodhew Rogers, was an English naval captain and inventor. Coles died when HMS Captain, an experimental warship built to his designs, sank with him on board.

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