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 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: 1860: F: Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company: 418 ft (127 m) 58 ft (18 m) 3-mast full rig: Iron: 6,039 tons burthen: 9,210 long tons: warship, museum HMS Agincourt: 1867: H: Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead: 407 ft (124 m) 59 ft 6 in (18.1 m) 5-mast: 6,638 tons burthen: 10,800 tons: warship HMS Minotaur: 1867: H: Thames ...
Britain's first sea-going iron-clad, HMS Warrior was laid down in May 1859, and a further three had been laid down by the end of 1859. Nevertheless, the Royal Navy continued to convert old sailing line-of-battle ships to steam, and to order and lay down new Bulwark -class two-deckers.
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 ...
The two ships differed where the last pair of seven-inch guns was positioned: Defence mounted them on the main deck, forward of the armour, while Resistance mounted hers on the upper deck. [ 19 ] The shell of the eight-inch (203 mm) weighed 175 pounds (79.4 kg) while the gun itself weighed 9 long tons (9.1 t).
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 ...
The following year they launched HMS Warrior, which was twice the size and had 4.5 inches of wrought iron armour (with 18 inches of teak wood backing) over an iron hull. After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War , it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ...