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HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate [Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.
HMS Warrior (1781) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1781. She became a receiving ship after 1818, a convict ship after 1840, and was broken up in 1857. HMS Warrior (1860) was the Royal Navy's first ironclad ocean-going armoured warship and world's first iron-hulled ironclad, and was launched in 1860. She became a depot ship ...
HMS Warrior was a Warrior-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was stationed in the Mediterranean when the First World War began and participated in the pursuit of the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and light cruiser SMS Breslau .
HMS Warrior joined the Channel Fleet in July 1862 and was placed in ordinary from 1864 to 1867, during which time she was refitted. The ship rejoined the Channel Fleet in 1867 and towed a floating drydock to Bermuda in 1869 with her sister Black Prince. [23] Warrior was placed in ordinary again from 1872 to 1875 and was modified with a poop deck.
21 March – HMS Magnificent loaned to Canada and commissioned as HMCS Magnificent. [55] 23 March – HMS Warrior returned to UK. [55] May – HMS Venerable sold to Netherlands. [71] 28 May – HMS Venerable recommissioned as HNLMS Karel Doorman. [71] 20 June – USS Princeton decommissioned, placed in reserve. [18] 22 June – HMS Bulwark ...
The following is a timeline of the history of London in the 19th century, ... iron-hulled and armoured battleship, HMS Warrior is launched on the Thames at Blackwall.
HMS Warrior was a steel-hulled steam yacht that was launched in Scotland in 1904. Her first owner was Frederick William Vanderbilt . One of his cousins, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt , owned her for a few months before he was killed in the sinking of RMS Lusitania .
La Gloire, built by the French, and the HMS Warrior (1860), by the English, were the first to adopt the system that would revolutionise naval warfare. Lloyd witnessed the effects of plating war ships during the Crimean War .