This process has also been used for plating nickel onto other metals, where a complex shape or sharp corners made good results difficult by electroplating.
Each is constructed differently and the components are made from gilding metals and red brass alloys with some gold plating, enamel, and bronze pieces.
One was, that extensive armour-plating must cause excessive rolling; and the other, that there were doubts of the stability of a ship wholly armour-plated.
