HMS Warrior - Battleship
Country : UK Launched : 29th December 1860
The RN's first ironclad frigate. 9137 tons displacement. 420 ft. oa, beam 58 ft. 4 in., draught 26 ft. 4 in. forward, 26 ft. 10 in. aft.
Compliment: 705 (as Third Rate).
Trim: down 1’ by the bows.
Initial armament: 10 x 100 pdr Armstrong rifled breechloaders, 26 x 68 pdr SB muzzle loaders, 4 x 40 pdr Armstrong rifled breechloaders.
1867: 4 x 8” MLR, 28 x 7” MLR, 4 x 20pdr Armstrong rifled breechloaders (saluting).
Machinery: Penn 14.3 kts on the measured mile. Coal 850 tons (reduced to 700 tons by 1868). 1 hoisting two-bladed screw.
Boats: Three boom boats ( 2 x 18 oared launches, 1 x 14-oared pinnace), three cutters, three gigs or whalers and a dinghy.
Ground Tackle: Four Admiralty Pattern Wooden-stocked anchors (two bowers, two sheets), all of 95 cwt, one 28 cwt iron-stocked stream anchor and two iron-stocked 19 cwt kedges.
Chain Cables: 600 fathoms of 2.375” and 100 fathoms of 1.625”.
Sail Area: Slightly less than the largest three-deckers.
Max speed under sail: 13 kts., on a par with the fastest three-deckers and 2 kts faster than her sister Black Prince which did not have a hoisting screw.
Hulked as Vernon III March 1904. Floating oil pontoon, Llanion Oil Depot, Pembroke. C77 in 1945. Preserved.
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