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HMS Leander (1882)
HMS ''Leander'' was a second class cruiser, name ship of the Royal Navy's first s. During a revolution in Panama in 1900, ''Leander'' helped protect the lives and property of foreign residents. Design and construction The ''Leander'' was built by Napier in Glasgow, being laid down in 1880, launched in 1882 and completed in 1885. The ''Leander'' class were originally designated as steel dispatch vessels, but were reclassified as second class cruisers before they were completed. The design was an improved version of the , with an armoured deck and better armament. The ''Leander'' had three masts and two funnels; she was square-rigged on the fore-mast and gaff-rigged on the two masts behind the funnels. She was armed with ten breech-loading (BL) guns, 16 machine guns and four above-water torpedo tubes. Four of the machine guns were later replaced by four quick-firing (QF) 3-pounder guns. After her sister ship 's trials, the ''Leander'' had her funnels raised to improve the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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HMS Penelope (1867)
HMS ''Penelope'' was a central-battery ironclad built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s and was rated as an armoured corvette. She was designed for inshore work with a shallow draught, and this severely compromised her performance under sail. Completed in 1868, the ship spent the next year with the Channel Fleet before she was assigned to the First Reserve Squadron in 1869 and became the coast guard ship for Harwich until 1887. ''Penelope'' was mobilised as tensions with Russia rose during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 and participated in the Bombardment of Alexandria during the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. The ship became a receiving ship in South Africa in 1888 and then a prison hulk in 1897. She was sold for scrap in 1912. Design The chief constructor, Sir Edward Reed, was ill, so the design of this ship was entrusted to his assistant and brother-in-law, Nathaniel Barnaby, himself a future chief constructor. For reasons that have not survived, the Admiralty requir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Ajax (1880)
HMS ''Ajax'' was the name ship of her class of ironclad battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1870s. Completed in 1883, she was immediately placed in reserve until 1885 when the ship was commissioned for the first time. Later that year, ''Ajax'' was assigned as a coast guard ship in Scotland and remained there for the next six years. She was reduced to reserve again in 1891 and was taken out of service a decade later. The ship was sold for scrap in 1904 and subsequently broken up. Design and description The ''Ajax'' class was designed as a shallow- draught version of the preceding that was also smaller and cheaper; unfortunately the need, imposed by budgetary constraints, to produce a smaller ship produced a vessel with all of the shortcomings of ''Inflexible'' but with none of her virtues.Parkes, p. 262 The ships had a length between perpendiculars of and were long overall, some shorter than ''Inflexible''. They had a beam of , and a draught of and displac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Shannon (1875)
The eighth HMS ''Shannon'' was the first British armoured cruiser. She was the last Royal Navy ironclad to be built which had a propeller that could be hoisted out of the water to reduce drag when she was under sail, and the first to have an armoured deck. Design ''Shannon'' was built in response to two threats. The instructions of the British Admiralty to the designer, Nathaniel Barnaby, were to design an ironclad "capable of competing with the second class Ironclads of foreign navies". This meant in particular the ten French armoured corvettes of the and classes,Beeler, p.183 though the ironclads of the smaller navies of Asia, and the Americas also featured. The British counter to these ships were the and classes of second-class ironclad of the 1860s. ''Shannon''s design was in the lineage of these ships, though the tactical landscape was changing. At the same time as ''Shannon'' was being planned, the Imperial Russian Navy launched the first armoured cruisers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Repulse (1868)
HMS ''Repulse'' was the last wooden battleship constructed for the Royal Navy. She was laid down as a 90-gun second-rate line-of-battle ship with two decks; having been approved for conversion to a broadside ironclad in 1861, work on her was intentionally delayed until the performance of earlier conversions from wooden hull to ironclad could be assessed. She was therefore eleven years from being laid down to completion, no work at all being undertaken on her between 1861 and 1866. In 1864 Sir Edward Reed had been Chief Constructor for some eighteen months, and was in a position to stipulate the nature of the armament and the disposition of armour which ''Repulse'' should carry when construction should be resumed, which it was in 1866. Guns of 9-inch and 10-inch calibre were already afloat in the Royal Navy, and clearly similar weapons could be carried by potential adversaries. It followed that armour of 4.5 inches thickness, which since had been regarded as adequate, coul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Lord Warden (1865)
HMS ''Lord Warden'' was the second and last ship of the wooden-hulled of armoured frigatesIronclad is the all-encompassing term for armored warships of this period. Armoured frigates were basically designed for the same role as traditional wooden frigates, but this later changed as the size and expense of these ships forced them to be used in the line of battle. built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the 1860s. She and her sister ship, , were the displacement (ship), heaviest wooden ships ever built and were also the fastest steaming wooden ships. They were also the slowest-sailing ironclads in the RN. After a brief deployment with the Channel Squadron upon Ship commissioning, commissioning in 1867, ''Lord Warden'' was transferred to the Mediterranean Squadron (United Kingdom), Mediterranean Squadron later that year. She became the squadron flagship in 1869 and retained that duty until 1875 when she returned home for a refit. Upon recommissioning the following year, the ship beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hotspur (1870)
HMS ''Hotspur'' was a Victorian Royal Navy ironclad ram – a warship armed with guns but whose primary weapon was a ram. Background It had been recognised since the time of the Roman Empire or before that a ship, while it might carry weaponry, was itself a potent weapon if used as a missile against other ships. In the era of sail-powered warships with their intrinsic limitations of speed and manoeuverability the practice of ramming opponents fell by default into disuse, although the concept remained alive. With the advent of steam-powered vessels, with their enhanced speed and lack of dependence for direction on the wind, the ram as a potent weapon of attack gained credibility in Naval circles and in Ship Constructors' departments. This first became apparent in the American Civil War, when many attempts were made by ships on both sides to ram their opponents, with almost uniform lack of success. (The Confederate '' Virginia (ex-Merrimack)'' rammed and sank the Federal ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Iron Duke (1870)
HMS ''Iron Duke'' was the last of four central battery ironclads built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. Completed in 1871, the ship was briefly assigned to the Reserve Fleet as a guardship in Ireland, before she was sent out to the China Station as its flagship. ''Iron Duke'' returned four years later and resumed her duties as a guardship. She accidentally rammed and sank her sister ship, , in a heavy fog in mid-1875 and returned to the Far East in 1878. The ship ran aground twice during this deployment and returned home in 1883. After a lengthy refit, ''Iron Duke'' was assigned to the Channel Fleet in 1885 and remained there until she again became a guardship in 1890. The ship was converted into a coal hulk a decade later and continued in that role until 1906 when she was sold for scrap and broken up. Design and description The ''Audacious'' class was designed as a second-class ironclad intended for overseas service.Roberts, p. 15 They were long between perpendiculars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Devastation (1871)
HMS ''Devastation'' was the first of two ''Devastation''-class mastless turret ships built for the Royal Navy. This was the first class of ocean-going capital ship that did not carry sails, and the first whose entire main armament was mounted on top of the hull rather than inside it. Design and construction ''Devastation'' was built at a time in which steam power was well-established among the world's larger naval powers. However, most ships built at this time were equipped not only with a steam engine, but also with masts and sails for auxiliary power. The presence of masts also prohibited the use of gun turrets since the rigging would obstruct their arc of fire. ''Devastation'', designed by Sir Edward J. Reed, represented a change from this pattern when she was built without masts and her primary armament, two turrets each with two 12-inch (305 mm) muzzle-loading guns, was placed on the top of the hull, allowing each turret a 280-degree arc of fire. ''Devastation'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Polyphemus (1881)
The third HMS ''Polyphemus'' was a Royal Navy torpedo ram, serving from 1881 until 1903. A shallow-draft, fast, low-profile vessel, she was designed to penetrate enemy harbours at speed and sink anchored ships. Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby primarily as a protected torpedo boat, the ram was provided very much as secondary armament. It has been suggested that H. G. Wells’ fictional HMS ''Thunder Child'' from his novel ''The War of the Worlds'' may have been based on this ship, in part because he described ''Thunder Child'' as an ironclad torpedo ram, and ''Polyphemus'' was the only ship of this type which the Royal Navy possessed. However, not being a naval person Wells may have been using the term loosely, assuming that all ram-bowed vessels were called torpedo rams. This is likely given that the fictional ship does not match the other particulars, such as number of funnels, size & weaponry, of HMS ''Polyphemus''. Design The Admiralty set up the "Torpedo Committee" in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Sultan (1870)
HMS ''Sultan'' was a broadside ironclad of the Royal Navy of the Victorian era, who carried her main armament in a central box battery. She was named for Sultan Abdulaziz of the Ottoman Empire, who was visiting England when she was laid down. Abdulaziz cultivated good relations with the Second French Empire and the British. In 1867 he was the first Ottoman sultan to visit Western Europe; his trip included a visit to England, where he was made a Knight of the Garter by Queen Victoria and shown a Royal Navy Fleet Review, with Isma'il Pasha of Egypt. Design With the exception of some small warships designed only for harbour defence, every ironclad warship so far completed, starting from , had mounted their main armament in broadside batteries. Although the turret-armed ships and were building, it was decided by the Board of Admiralty that, pending results from these two experimental ships, ''Sultan'' would carry her artillery in a centrally-placed box battery. The design of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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