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HMS Warrior
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History
United Kingdom
Name HMS Warrior
Ordered 11 May 1859
Builder Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Blackwall, London
Cost £377,292
Laid down About August 1859
Launched 29 December 1860
Commissioned 1 August 1861
Decommissioned 31 May 1883
Renamed
  • Vernon III, March 1904
  • Warrior, 1 October 1923
  • Oil Fuel Hulk C77, 27 August 1942
  • HMS Warrior (1860), 1985
Status Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type Warrior-class armoured frigate
Displacement 9,137 long tons (9,284 t)
Length 420 ft (128.0 m) (o/a)
Beam 58 ft 4 in (17.8 m)
Draught 26 ft 10 in (8.2 m)
Installed power
Propulsion 1 shaft, 1 Trunk steam engine
Sail plan Ship rig
Speed 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Range 2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement 706 officers and enlisted men
Armament
Armour
  • Belt: 4.5 in (114 mm)
  • Bulkheads: 4.5 in (114 mm)

HMS Warrior was the first battleship with a hull made of iron. It was built in response to the French ironclad warship Gloire. It is in Portsmouth, England with the HMS Victory and the remains of the Mary Rose, a ship belonging to Henry VIII of England.

  • HMS Warrior (1860) at Historic Naval Ships Association


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