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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 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.
HMS Warrior was a Colossus-class light aircraft carrier which was ordered in 1942 by the British Royal Navy during World War II. Construction was finished in 1945 and upon completion, the aircraft carrier was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy from 1946 to 1948 as HMCS Warrior .
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 .
While under the command of Captain the Viscount Torrington in 1813, Warrior was the ship chosen to convey Prince Frederick of the Netherlands to his homeland for the first time. [6] On 10 August 1815, Warrior collided with the British merchant ship George in the Atlantic Ocean. George foundered with the loss of four lives. Warrior rescued her ...
HMS Invincible (R05) 20 22,000 long tons (22,353 t) 4 Olympus gas turbine engines combined gas and gas, 2 Shafts July 1973 July 1980 Sold for scrap 2010 HMS Illustrious (R06) 20 22,000 long tons (22,353 t) 4 Olympus gas turbine engines combined gas and gas, 2 Shafts October 1976 June 1982 Sold for scrap 2016 HMS Ark Royal (R07) ex-Indomitable
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 ...