HMS Warrior (1860)

Type:
Armored warship
Class:
Warrior
Builder:
Thames Ironworks &
Shipbuilding Company Ltd.
Blackwall, London, England
Hull Number:
N/A
Ordered:
1859
Commissioned:
August 1, 1861
Keel Laid:
May 25, 1859
Decommissioned:
1924
Launched:
December 29, 1860
Stricken:
N/A
Fate:
On display as a museum ship at the Portsmouth, England.


Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
481'
Engines:
1 Penn Jet-Condensing single expansion
Beam:
58'
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
27'
Shafts:
1 (with three masts rigged for sail)
Displacement:
9,210
HP:
N/A
Speed:
13 knots (under sail) 14.5 knots (under steam)
Crew:
705
Range:
N/A


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
10
110 pounder
breach loading cannons
single mounts
N/A
26
68 pounder
muzzle loading cannons

single mounts
N/A


Notes
Warrior was the first iron hulled warship built for the Royal Navy.


Builder's Data
Page published Nov. 25, 2007