HMS Warrior (1860)
A tour on board HMS Warrior (1860), the lead ship in the 'Warrior' Class of Ironclads for the Royal Navy as preserved at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. HMS Warrior was laid down in August 1859 and launched on 29th December 1860, a 40 gun Ironclad steam powered warship. HMS Warrior and her sister 'Black Prince' were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire in 1859. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1871 launching of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, she was placed in reserve in 1875 and decommissioned in 1883. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAlBHS7ODk