Friday 11 March 2022

Portsmouth 2022 - HMS Warrior

 

HMS Warrior IJ

HMS Warrior was Britain's first ironclad war ship being commissioned on 1st August 1861. 

HMS Warrior

The ship gave it's name to the Warrior Class warships which were built in response to the French Navy's launching of the first ironclad warship Gloire.

Warrior Class warships
HMS Warrior and HMS Black Prince

HMS Warrior was a steam powered with a full set of sails. It had a single gun deck mounting 19 guns on each side. A fore and aft chaser gun completed the armament of 40 guns.



HMS Warrior Portsmouth

The armament of 40 guns consisted of:
26 × Smoothbore muzzle-loading (SBML) 68-pdr (206 mm) guns
10 × Rifled breechloading (RBL) 110-pdr (178 mm) guns
4 × Rifled breechloading (RBL) 40-pdr (121 mm) guns

HMS Warrior 110 pounder RBL IJ

HMS Warrior RBL 110 pounder

HMS Warrior Gun Deck

HMS Warrior RBL 40 pounder

HMS Warrior opening the breech  TW IJ



HMS Warrior Crew Station on Gun Deck

HMS Warrior Rum Ration

HMS Warrior Officers War Room

HMS Warrior Officers Dining Room
HMS Warrior Officers Cabin

HMS Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863.

HMS Warrior departing Portsmouth

HMS Warrior practice firing

HMS Warrior was then employed on active working as part of the Channel Squadron. Ten years later she was made obsolete as warship as sail came to an end and transition to the steel armour plated ships.