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HMS Warrior was designed as a British response to the three Gloire class ironclads of the French Navy; being wooden-hulled armoured frigates, with 120 mm (4.7'') armour on the hull and a heavy armament of 44 guns of various large calibres for the time, the Royal Navy was worried about how to stop them in case of war. Therefore a new class of armoured warships was quickly designed so as maintain superiority, qualitatively and technically, over any possible rival.
The Warrior class was built along the lines of the large frigate HMS Mersey, however the entire hull was to be built of iron instead of wood, unlike the French ironclads, with a citadel surrounding the central portion of the ship to protect the vitals: unless this was directly pierced, the ships could have sustained damage or flooding on either or both ends without compromising survivability or combat capacity. Armour on the ship was 4.5'' (114 mm) backed by 24'' (610 mm) of teak, while she sported 26 smoothbore 8'' (68 pdrs), ten rifled 7'' (110 pdr) breech-loaders, and four rifled 4.75'' (40 pdr) breech-loading guns.
The ship also had a horizontal trunk steam engine powering a retractable propeller; maximum speed under steam was 14 kn, while with combined sail and steam it could reach 17 kn, although this would have been rarely achieved in active service given the limited (compared to much later designs) bunkerage and high fuel consumption.
Warrior and her sister Black Prince were ordered and laid down in 1859, with the former launched in December 1860 and the latter only two months later; they were completed the following year.
Both ships joined the Channel Fleet on commission, with a few periods of maintenance and refit in between, until 1868: that year the two vessels, along with a wooden paddle frigate, towed a floating drydock from Portugal to the British base of Bermuda. In 1874-75, both ships were refitted with more modern machinery and boilers, with Warrior being used as a guardship, while Black Prince accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh to Canada and was deactivated on her return, being used only on annual fleet exercises. Warrior was decommissioned in 1883.
Both ships were reclassified as armoured cruisers and at least Warrior was considered for modernization as late as 1894, however this being judged too uneconomical the ship was struck from the effective list in 1900, joining her sister which had been hulked in 1896.
Black Prince was finally sold for scrap in 1923, however Warrior was used as part of the torpedo training school Vernon from 1904, serving in that role until Black Prince was broken up, but there was no interest in scrapping the old ironclad due to the price collapse after the end of World War I and the Washington Naval Treaty had seen so many ships sold for breaking. Therefore Warrior was used as a floating oil jetty at Pembroke Dock with all her fittings and masts removed, except the boilers and generators. There she laid for the next fifty years, serving as a base for minesweepers during the Second World War.
In 1968 the Maritime Trust was founded with the aim of preserving historic ships, but Oil Fuel Hulk C77 was not released until 1978 when the company running her declared the oil depot would close.
The following year Warrior was towed at Hartlepool for restoration to her original 1862 configuration, which would cost £9 million. In 1983 the hulk was acquired by a foundation which became the Warrior Preservation Trust two years later; finally in 1987 the ship finally opened as a museum in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, where she can still be visited today.
The Warrior class was built along the lines of the large frigate HMS Mersey, however the entire hull was to be built of iron instead of wood, unlike the French ironclads, with a citadel surrounding the central portion of the ship to protect the vitals: unless this was directly pierced, the ships could have sustained damage or flooding on either or both ends without compromising survivability or combat capacity. Armour on the ship was 4.5'' (114 mm) backed by 24'' (610 mm) of teak, while she sported 26 smoothbore 8'' (68 pdrs), ten rifled 7'' (110 pdr) breech-loaders, and four rifled 4.75'' (40 pdr) breech-loading guns.
The ship also had a horizontal trunk steam engine powering a retractable propeller; maximum speed under steam was 14 kn, while with combined sail and steam it could reach 17 kn, although this would have been rarely achieved in active service given the limited (compared to much later designs) bunkerage and high fuel consumption.
Warrior and her sister Black Prince were ordered and laid down in 1859, with the former launched in December 1860 and the latter only two months later; they were completed the following year.
Both ships joined the Channel Fleet on commission, with a few periods of maintenance and refit in between, until 1868: that year the two vessels, along with a wooden paddle frigate, towed a floating drydock from Portugal to the British base of Bermuda. In 1874-75, both ships were refitted with more modern machinery and boilers, with Warrior being used as a guardship, while Black Prince accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh to Canada and was deactivated on her return, being used only on annual fleet exercises. Warrior was decommissioned in 1883.
Both ships were reclassified as armoured cruisers and at least Warrior was considered for modernization as late as 1894, however this being judged too uneconomical the ship was struck from the effective list in 1900, joining her sister which had been hulked in 1896.
Black Prince was finally sold for scrap in 1923, however Warrior was used as part of the torpedo training school Vernon from 1904, serving in that role until Black Prince was broken up, but there was no interest in scrapping the old ironclad due to the price collapse after the end of World War I and the Washington Naval Treaty had seen so many ships sold for breaking. Therefore Warrior was used as a floating oil jetty at Pembroke Dock with all her fittings and masts removed, except the boilers and generators. There she laid for the next fifty years, serving as a base for minesweepers during the Second World War.
In 1968 the Maritime Trust was founded with the aim of preserving historic ships, but Oil Fuel Hulk C77 was not released until 1978 when the company running her declared the oil depot would close.
The following year Warrior was towed at Hartlepool for restoration to her original 1862 configuration, which would cost £9 million. In 1983 the hulk was acquired by a foundation which became the Warrior Preservation Trust two years later; finally in 1987 the ship finally opened as a museum in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, where she can still be visited today.
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