HMS Warrior

HMS Warrior is a museum ship lying alongside Portsmouth Dockyardand in 2010 my company was commissioned to manufacture the furniture for the refurbished sickbay.

I have put a link to a video by Dan Snow which takes you on a guided tour of the ship.

 

youtu.be/KVaCeE0YaFM?feature=shared

 

Warrior

History

United Kingdom

NameWarrior

Ordered11 May 1859

BuilderThames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Blackwall, London

Cost£377,292

Laid downAbout August 1859

Launched29 December 1860

Completed24 October 1861

Commissioned1 August 1861

Decommissioned31 May 1883

Renamed

Vernon III, March 1904

Warrior, 1 October 1923

Oil Fuel Hulk C77, 27 August 1942

HMS Warrior (1860), 1985

StatusMuseum ship (50°47′54″N 01°06′32″W)

General characteristics

Class and typeWarrior-class armoured frigate

Displacement9,137 long tons (9,284 t)

Length420 ft (128.0 m) (o/a)

Beam58 ft 4 in (17.8 m)

Draught26 ft 10 in (8.2 m)

Installed power

10 rectangular boilers

5,772 indicated horsepower (4,304 kW)

Propulsion1 shaft; 1 Trunk steam engine

Sail planShip rig

Speed14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)

Range2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)

Complement706 officers and ratings

Armament

26 × Smoothbore muzzle-loading 68-pdr (206 mm) guns

10 × Rifled breechloading 110-pdr (178 mm) guns

4 × Rifled breechloading 40-pdr (121 mm) guns

Armour

Belt: 4.5 in (114 mm)

Bulkheads: 4.5 in (114 mm)

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. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1873 commissioning of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, she was placed in reserve in 1875, and was "paid off" – decommissioned – in 1883.

 

She subsequently served as a storeship and depot ship, and in 1904 was assigned to the Royal Navy's torpedo training school. The ship was converted into an oil jetty in 1927 and remained in that role until 1979, at which point she was donated by the Navy to The Maritime Trust for restoration. The restoration process took eight years, during which many of her features and fittings were either restored or recreated. When this was finished she returned to Portsmouth as a museum ship. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Warrior has been based in Portsmouth since 1987.

 

 

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