H.M.S. Warrior
1861
(Optatus OPT-03)
- Class: Warrior - 2 broadside ironclads of 1859
- Displacement: 9,210 tons
- Dimensions: 420 (oa) x 58 x 26 ft.
- Machinery: Penn horizontal trunk steam engine, 5267 IHP; single shaft = 14.5 knots;
under sail = 13 knots; under sail & steam = 17 knots
- Armor:
- Armament: 28 muzzle-loading 68 pdrs, 10 rifled breech-loading 110 pdrs,
4 rifled breech-loading 40 pdrs
- Complement: 705
- Builder: Thames Ironworks, Blackwall, England
- Laid Down: 25 May 1859
- Launched: 29 Dec 1860
- Completed: 24 Oct 1861
- Notes: First iron-hulled seagoing ironclad.
Designed by Chief Constructor Isaac Watts.
- Service: With Channel Squadron from 1862. Relegated to Reserve Fleet 1883. Used as depot ship. Renamed Vernon III in 1904 as part of torpedo training school, Portsmouth. Renamed Oil Fuel Hulk C77 as floating oil jetty at Pembroke Dock, Wales. Only example of 45 ironhulls built between 1861 and 1877 to survive.
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