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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 ...
Right elevation and plan view from Brassey's Naval Annual; the shaded areas show her armouring. Warrior displaced 13,550 long tons (13,770 t) as built and 14,500 long tons (14,700 t) fully loaded. The ship had an overall length of 505 feet 4 inches (154.0 m), a beam of 73 feet 6 inches (22.4 m) and a draught of 27
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.
Includes Hindostan as static training ship; HMS Excellent (Whale Island, Portsmouth) HMS Raleigh (Torpoint, Cornwall) Includes Brecon as static training ship; HMS Sultan (Gosport, Hampshire) HMS Temeraire (Royal Navy School of Physical Training, Portsmouth) Defence Diving School (Horsea Island, Portsmouth)
Right elevation and plan view of the Warrior class from the 1912 Brassey's Naval Annual. The four armoured cruisers of the 1903–1904 Naval Programme were originally intended to be repeats of the preceding Duke of Edinburgh class, but complaints from the fleet that the low placement of the secondary armament of earlier ships of this type meant that the guns could not be fought in anything ...
Ironically the Armstrong Guns were therefore incapable of penetrating the armour fitted to the Warrior-class ships, while the 68-pounder (with its high muzzle velocity) could. [ 6 ] [ 23 ] As late as 1867 it was planned to fit the new Plover -class gunvessels with 68-pounders, but they were instead completed with a RML 7 inch gun and a RML 64 ...
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 .