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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 ...
The Secretary of the CS Navy, Stephen Mallory, was very aggressive on a limited budget in a land-focused war, and developed a two-pronged warship strategy of building ironclad warships for coastal and national defense, and commerce raiding cruisers, supplemented with exploratory use of special weapons such as torpedo boats and torpedoes.
CSS Black Warrior Confederate States Navy: 20 February 1859 Burned at Elizabeth City. Bluefields Nicaragua: 15 July 1942 Nicaraguan freighter; torpedoed off Cape Hatteras by U-576. [12] [13] Bounty United States: 29 October 2012 Replica of the original HMS Bounty. Sank during Hurricane Sandy with 16 people aboard.
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)
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 ...
Warrior was ordered as part of the 1903–04 naval construction programme as the first of four armoured cruisers and laid down on 5 November 1903 at Pembroke Dockyard. Her eponym, the once-innovative armoured frigate (at the time converted to a depot ship) HMS Warrior, was renamed to HMS Vernon III in 1904 to free up the
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 ...