HMS WARRIOR IN DOCK 8

HMS WARRIOR A BRITISH WARSHIP 1860

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE QTR DECK AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS SECTION WORKS RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH TO BE UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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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:

5,772 ihp (4,304 kW)

10 rectangular boilers

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:

26 × Smoothbore muzzle-loading 68-pounder (206 mm) guns
10 × Rifled breechloading 110-pounder (178 mm) guns
4 × Rifled breechloading 40-pounder (121 mm) guns

Armour:

Belt: 4.5 in (114 mm)
Bulkheads: 4.5 in (114 mm)

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