LC control no. | n 84175148 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Warrior (Battleship) |
Variant(s) | HMS Warrior HMS Warrior 1860 Warrior Preservation Trust. Warrior (Battleship) |
Beginning date | 1860 |
Associated country | Great Britain England |
Located | Portsmouth (England) |
Field of activity | Navigation--History Historic ships |
Special note | Not same as HMS Warrior, ship of the line launched in 1781, becoming a receiving ship after 1818, a convict ship after 1840, and broken up in 1857. |
Found in | Brownlee, W.D. Warrior, the first modern battleship, 1985: CIP t.p. (Warrior) Building a working model warship : HMS Warrior 1860, c1997. Wells, John. The immortal Warrior : Britain's first and last battleship, 1987: p.11 (Warrior set sail on 20 September 1861) Warrior news, spring 2013: p.8 (HMS Warrior 1860) Wikipedia, viewed 14 Apr. 2015 (HMS Warrior (1860); built for the Royal Navy in 1859-61; she and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships; ordered 11 May 1859, launched 29 Dec. 1860, commissioned 1 Aug. 1861, decommissioned 31 May 1883; subsequently served as a storeship and depot ship; in 1904 assigned to the Royal Navy's torpedo training school; the ship was converted into an oil jetty in 1927 and remained in that role until 1979, at which point she was donated by the Navy to the Maritime Trust for restoration, which began in Sept. 1979 in Hartlepool; preserved as a museum ship at Portsmouth since 1987) |
Associated language | eng |