Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, was an English naval captain with the Royal Navy. Coles was also an inventor; in 1859, he was the first to patent a design for a revolving gun turret. Upon appealing for public support, his turrets were installed on HMS Prince Albert and HMS Royal Sovereign. Coles died in a maritime accident in 1870 when HMS Captain, an experimental warship built to his designs, capsized and sank with him on board.
- Occupation
- inventor, naval officer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1819, July 9, 1819
- Died
- September 7, 1870
