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| HMS Warrior IJ |
HMS Warrior was Britain's first ironclad war ship being commissioned on 1st August 1861.
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| 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.
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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.
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| 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
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| HMS Warrior 110 pounder RBL IJ |
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| HMS Warrior RBL 110 pounder |
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| HMS Warrior Gun Deck |
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| HMS Warrior RBL 40 pounder |
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| HMS Warrior opening the breech TW IJ |
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| HMS Warrior Crew Station on Gun Deck |
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| HMS Warrior Rum Ration |
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| HMS Warrior Officers War Room |
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| HMS Warrior Officers Dining Room |
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| HMS Warrior Officers Cabin |
HMS Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863.
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| HMS Warrior departing Portsmouth |
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| 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.
