Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 ...
The requirement for speed meant a very long vessel, which had to be built from iron. The result was the construction of two Warrior-class ironclads; HMS Warrior and HMS Black Prince. The ships had a successful design, though there were necessarily compromises between 'sea-keeping', strategic range and armor protection.
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.
The Defence-class ironclads were a class of two warships built for the Royal Navy between 1859 and 1862. The ships were designed as armoured frigates [Note 1] in response to an invasion scare sparked by the launch of the French ironclad Gloire and her three sisters in 1858.
HMS Avalon, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; HMS Badger, HQ of Flag Officer Harwich and Coastal Forces base (1939–1946), Harwich; HMS Baldur (also HMS Baldur II), Accommodation and accounting, Iceland; HMS Beaver, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Humber, (1 October 1940 – July 1945) – (base A.O. at Grimsby)
"Century One" – HMS Centurion; humorous malapropism "Charlie Love Five Five" – USS Cleveland (CL-55), nickname refers to the ship's hull symbol, CL-55. "Cheer Up Ship" – USS Nevada (BB-36) "Chesapeake Raider" – USS Wyoming (BB-32), nickname given after frequent sightings of the ship in the Chesapeake Bay during World War Two.