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== History ==
Use of timber rafts loaded with cannon by Danish defenders of Copenhagen against bomb ketches of a combined British-Dutch-Swedish fleet is attested by Nathaniel Uring in 1700.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Uring, Nathaniel. |title=A History of the Voyages and Travels of Captain Nathaniel Uring. |publisher=W Wilkens for J Peele, Pater-noster Row, London 1726. |pages=26}}</ref> An early appearance was in 1782 at the [[Great Siege of Gibraltar]], and its invention and usage is attributed to
A purpose-built floating battery was ''Flådebatteri No. 1'',<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.orlogsbasen.dk/tegn/106-2000.jpg | title = Orlogsbasen | place = [[Denmark|DK]] | format = JPEG | access-date = 2010-04-21 | archive-date = 2011-07-19 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110719130437/http://www.orlogsbasen.dk/tegn/106-2000.jpg | url-status = dead }}.</ref> designed by Chief Engineer [[Henrik Gerner]] in 1787; it was {{convert|47|m|ft|abbr=on}} long, {{convert|13|m|ft|abbr=on}} wide and armed with 24 guns, and was used during the 1801 [[battle of Copenhagen (1801)|Battle of Copenhagen]] under the command of [[Peter Willemoes]]. The British made limited use of floating batteries during the [[French Revolutionary Wars|French Revolutionary]] and [[Napoleonic Wars]], with the two-vessel {{sclass|Musquito|floating battery|5}} and {{sclass|Firm|floating battery|5}}-class floating batteries, and some individual vessels such as {{HMS|Redoubt|1793|6}}.
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