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HMS Triumph - Battleship
Country : UK Launched : 27th September 1870
HMS Triumph. was laid down on the 31st August 1868 and launched 27th September 1870 and completed on the 8th April 1873. Commissioned into the navy at Devonport in march 1873 into the Channel fleet but being transferred to the Mediterranean. to take part in the Cartagena incident, ( a demonstration against Mutinous Spanish Ships. Went to the Pacific to relieve HMS Shah as Flagship. after HMS Shah incident with the piratical Peruvian Turret Ship Huascar in may 1878 to October 1882. She was relieved by her sister ship HMS Swiftsure in October. went into refit at Portsmouth and was re-boilered. and also re armed . After refit she returned to the pacific as Flagship of Admiral Baird fro January 1885 to December 1888, again being relieved by HMS Swiftsure. went into reserve at Devonport until February 1900 when she became Flagship at Queenstown until September 1892. went into Fleet reserve at Devonport until July 1900 to become a depot ship at Plymouth, being Hulked in 1903. renamed Tenedos as a Training ship for Boy Artificers at Chatham. then becoming a tender to HMS warrior in 1905 at Portsmouth. becoming Indus IV at Devonport in 1910 finally being Towed Invergordon in 1914 A floating Store. Algiers. sold in 1921 for £10.775
RENAMED TENEDOS IN 1904, INDUS IV IN 1912, THEN ALGIERS IN 1914. SOLD FOR SCRAP IN 1921.
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