Ironclads

HMS Minotaur, 1868

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
Two 20-pounder smoothbore

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'

Ironclads | Ships

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 Two 20-pounder smoothbore
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'