HMS Prince Albert (1864)
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Prince Albert |
Builder | Samuda Brothers, Cubitt Town, London |
Laid down | 29 April 1862 |
Launched | 23 May 1864 |
Completed | 23 February 1866 |
Fate | Broken up, Thos. W. Ward 1899 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 3,687 long tons (3,746 t) |
Length | 240 ft (73 m) p/p |
Beam | 48 ft 1 in (14.66 m) |
Draught |
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Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Fore and aft steadying sail only |
Speed | 11.26 knots (12.96 mph; 20.85 km/h) |
Complement | 201 |
Armament | 4 × 9-inch (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles |
Armour |
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HMS Prince Albert was designed and built as a shallow-draught coast-defence ship, and was the first British warship designed to carry her main armament in turrets.
Design
The
Freeboard was fixed at seven feet (2.1 m) to ensure adequate stability, while affording the armament a command at least comparable to that obtained in contemporary
Unlike the turrets in the contemporary American monitors, the turrets were rotated by hand; eighteen men could turn a turret through 360 degrees in about a minute.
Service history
Prince Albert was commissioned at Portsmouth and was almost immediately withdrawn from service for trials and alterations, which lasted until 1867. She passed thereafter into the first division, Devonport Reserve. She formed part of the
Notes
- ^ The first completed turret ship was HMS Royal Sovereign, converted from a ship-of-a-line and commissioned in 1864.
References
- ISBN 0-87021-924-3.)
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- Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.