Ironclads

HMS Black Prince

Class Warrior Class Ironclad Battleship

Sister Ship HMS Warrior

Built 1862

Speed 11 Knots

Complement 707

Length 420 ft

Weight 9,250 tons

Armament 26 muzzle-loading 68 pounders
10 breech-loading 110 pounders

Stations Channel Squadron 1862 - 1866
Coastal Guard 1867
Guard Ship 1867 - 1874
Channel Fleet 1874 - 1878

Fate Stationed at Queenstown, Ireland, where she became a harbor training ship in 1896. Renamed Emerald in 1903. Sailing to Plymouth in 1910 she was named Impregnable III and became a training facility ship. She was sold for scrap in 1923.

Notes The World's Second Iron battleship. Provoked Charles Dickens to make the following quote about her: 'A black vicious ugly customer as ever I saw, whale-like in size, and with as terrible a row of incisor teeth as ever closed on a French frigate'

Ironclads | Ships

Class	Warrior Class Ironclad Battleship
Sister Ship	HMS Warrior
Built	1862
Speed	11 Knots
Complement	707
Length	420 ft
Weight	9,250 tons
Armament	26 muzzle-loading 68 pounders 10 breech-loading 110 pounders
Stations	Channel Squadron 1862 - 1866 Coastal Guard 1867 Guard Ship 1867 - 1874 Channel Fleet 1874 - 1878
Fate	Stationed at Queenstown, Ireland, where she became a harbor training ship in 1896. Renamed Emerald in 1903. Sailing to Plymouth in 1910 she was named Impregnable III and became a training facility ship. She was sold for scrap in 1923.
Notes	The World's Second Iron battleship. Provoked Charles Dickens to make the following quote about her: 'A black vicious ugly customer as ever I saw, whale-like in size, and with as terrible a row of incisor teeth as ever closed on a French frigate'