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HMS Penelope

Name : HMS Penelope
Laid Down : 4th September 1865
Launched : 18th June 1867
Completed : 27th June 1868
Type : Battleship
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Builder : Pembroke
Country : UK
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Fate : Sold for scrap 12th July 1912.

Iron hulled, three decked, ship-rigged armoured corvette PENELOPE, designed by Edward Reed; displacement 4380 tons. Length 260 ft. pp; beam 50 ft.; draught 16 ft. forward, 17.5 ft. aft at full load. Complement 350. Bows equipped with a short knee under the bowsprit and a pointed ram. A good gun platform. Armament: 8 x 8” RML in a central battery with embrasures. 3 x 5” Armstrong BLs as chase guns, on truck mountings. Machinery: 2 sets of Maudslay 3 cyl. horizontal single expansion engines. First armoured vessel with twin screws and unique in having hoisting twin screws, which were not a success. Bunkers 500 tons. Not an economical steamer. Trial Speed 12.75 kts. Best speed under sail 8.5 kts.

Service: Commissioned for the Channel Squadron in 1868. To First Reserve Squadron in 1869 as Guardship at Harwich where she remained for eighteen years apart from an attachment to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1882 for service off Egypt involving bombardment of Alexandria. Eight wounded and one 8” gun disabled. She then served for a short time in the Suez Canal (because of her light draught) before returning to Harwich. Paid off in 1887 for refit. In 1888 sent to Cape of Good Hope as a harbour receiving ship at Simon’s Bay and subsequently converted to a prison hulk. Sold at Cape Town in 1912 and broken up at Genoa in 1914.

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HMS Penelope, 1868.


HMS Penelope, 1868.


HMS Penelope in dock, 1914.


HMS Penelope in dock, 1914.

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