Coles, Cowper Phipps, an English naval captain and architect; entered the navy at 11; distinguished himself at Sebastopol; designer of the turret-ship the Captain, which capsized off Finisterre, himself on board, and drowned with a crew of 500 men (1819‒1870).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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