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Class | Minataur Class Ironclad Battleship |
Sister Ship | HMS Agincourt and HMS Northumberland |
Built | 1868 |
Speed | 14.3 Knots |
Complement | 705 - 800 |
Length | 407 ft |
Weight | 10,690 tons |
Armament | 1868:Four 9-inch muzzle-loading rifles Twenty-four 7-inch muzzle-loading rifles Eight 24-pounder smoothbore
1875:Seventeen 9-inch muzzle-loading rifles |
Stations | Channel Squadron 1867 - 1873, 1875 - 1887 Reserve Squadron 1887 - 1893 |
Fate | In 1893 HMS Minotaur was re-named HMS Boscawen II and used as a training ship at Portland; from 1905 to 1922 she took the role of training ship at Harwich under the name of HMS Ganges before being broken up 1922 |
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' |
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