HMS Warrior IJ |
HMS Warrior was Britain's first ironclad war ship being commissioned on 1st August 1861.
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.
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 RBL 110 pounder |
HMS Warrior Officers Dining Room |
HMS Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863.
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.