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	HMS Warrior (1860) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		HMS Warrior (1860) (also known as Vernon III and Oil Fuel Hulk C77) was the world's first ocean-going iron-hulled armoured battleship.
		She froze to the slipway when she was launched on December 29, 1860 at the Thames Ironworks near London during the coldest winter for 50 years and six tugs were required to haul her into the river.
		She was renamed HMS Warrior (1860) to avoid confusion with the present HMS Warrior, which is the operational headquarters of the Royal Navy at Northwood.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/hm/hms_warrior__1860_.html (399 words)

	HMS Warrior (1860) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She froze to the slipway when she was launched on December 29, 1860 at the Thames Ironworks at Blackwall, London during the coldest winter for 50 years and six tugs were required to haul her into the river.
		Restoration of Warrior as a museum ship began on September 3, 1979 in Hartlepool and was completed in June 16, 1987 when she arrived at her current berth in Portsmouth.
		She was renamed Warrior (1860) to avoid confusion with the present Warrior, which is the operational headquarters of the Royal Navy at Northwood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Warrior_(1860) (466 words)

	HMS Warrior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Warrior, launched in 1860, was the first ironclad ocean-going armoured battleship.
		Warrior (R31), launched in 1944, was a Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier.
		As of 2004, HMS Warrior is the operational headquarters of the Royal Navy at Northwood near London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Warrior (192 words)

	Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - HMS Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		HMS Warrior 1860 was launched during a period of uneasy peace between Britain and her traditional enemy, France.
		Work on the stern gallery of HMS Warrior 1860 uncovered some unexpected secrets when a project to replace rotten timber, originally estimated to take 6 weeks escalated into 5 months and half the stern to be replaced.
		Warrior has masts because her engines were not sufficiently fuel efficient to do without them.
	www.flagship.org.uk /hms_warrior.htm (274 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - HMS Warrior - A538030
		HMS Warrior was a compromise, with her centre of gravity in the middle, and consequently, problems were inevitable.
		HMS Warrior also had a figurehead on the end of her bow, and along with her sister ship, HMS Black Prince and the HMS Rodney of 1888, was one of the last of the British front-rank ships to carry a figurehead.
		HMS Warrior is now the only surviving iron warship in the world, and is on display in Portsmouth.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A538030 (3681 words)

	Portsmouth Historic Dockyard -Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		HMS WARRIOR 1860 as the world's first ocean going, iron hulled, armoured warship, was the most formidable naval vessel of her day and one of the most significant warships ever built.
		WARRIOR is the only warship spanning the eras of wood and iron and sail and steam, which can be seen when visiting her, by comparing the working replica Penn steam engine, boiler room and huge propeller to the rigging and sails of the ship.
		HMS WARRIOR 1860 has been restored to as near as possible her original condition, allowing groups to step back in time and imagine what life would have been like in the Victorian Navy.
	www.christmasfestival.co.uk /education_warrior.htm (279 words)

	HMS Warrior
		In 1860, from The Thames Ironworks in Blackwall, there was launched one of the most revolutionary warships ever built - the Steam Frigate HMS WARRIOR, she was designed and built as Britain's answer to the French LA GLOIRE.
		HM STEAM FRIGATE WARRIOR could thus outsail and outfight every Line-of-Battle Ship in existence at that time and this fact was recognised by the Admiralty Board who subsequently afforded her 3rd Rate Line-of-Battle Ship status on the basis of her 705 ship's company.
		HMS WARRIOR was taken in tow by the ENGADINE, a Seaplane Tender, at about 1900 but by 0500 next morning with her quarterdeck awash the WARRIOR was abandoned and then scuttled 160 miles east of Aberdeen.
	www.northwood.mod.uk /nwood/history/warrior/warrior.htm (1524 words)

	Warrior class battleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The two-ship Warrior class was a revolutionary British Royal Navy battleship design of the mid 19th century.
		HMS Warrior was laid down at the Ditchburn and Mare Shipyards, Blackwall, London, 25 May 1859.
		Warrior can now be seen alongside HMS Victory at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warrior_class_battleship (385 words)

	HMS Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Warrior was launched on 29th December 1860, but during her lifetime she never fired a shot in anger.
		Warrior went up for sale in 1924 when she was no longer wanted, she was bought and used as a floating oil jetty at Pembroke Dock in Wales.
		HMS Warrior has got a site about it, the warrior along with the whole dockyard is well worth a visit.
	www.portsmouth-guide.co.uk /local/warrior.htm (384 words)

	Warrior 1860 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		HMS Warrior was Britain's first iron built ship and is the only survivor from the Black Battlefleet.
		Warrior started a technological race in warship design, forty four ships followed Warrior into service with the Royal Navy, all of different shape and size and all with increasing modifications keeping the British ahead of the other countries.
		Warrior's hull was scheduled for scrapping but luck was on her side the ship was taken over by the Maritime Trust for restoration and in August/September was towed to Hartlepool to bring her back to how the ship was in 1860.
	www.twogreens.com /navy/WARRIOR/WARR.HTML (951 words)

	HMS Warrior - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Warrior, launched in 1781, was a third-rate ship of the line of 74 guns.
		She became a receiving ship after 1818, and was broken up in 1857.
		Warrior, launched in 1905, was an armoured cruiser.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/HMS_Warrior (202 words)

	WARRIOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Despite her revolutionary design, Warrior was soon to be outclassed by turret ships, steam only warships and the introduction of steel hulls during a period when almost every new ship was an experiment that culminated in the launch of HMS Dreadnaught in 1906.
		Warrior was assigned to the Channel Fleet, where she spent nearly all of her seagoing service, guarding Great Britain and the eastern Atlantic against potential maritime threats.
		In 1981, Warrior was given a new upper deck of Victorian timbers taken from the floors of a demolished Bradford warehouse (some of the lower deck timber are original) and, three years later, she received her masts.
	website.lineone.net /~d.bolton/Lastwalls/warrior.htm (1217 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Often called the world's first battleship and the first ironclad, the revolutionary HMS Warrior was a superlative ship—but she was neither the first battleship nor the first ironclad.
		HMS Warrior was commissioned as part of the Channel Fleet on August 1, 1861, by Captain A. Cochrane.
		In 1987, HMS Warrior 1860, as she is officially known, was towed to Portsmouth and put on permanent public display at the Portsmouth Naval Base.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_099000_hmswarrior.htm (876 words)

	Armchair General Magazine: Interactive Military History
		Built during the reign of Queen Victoria, the basic concept for her design consisted of a gigantic armoured "box" or "citadel" built from four and a half inch thick wrought iron plates which were then bolted to 18 inches of teak, and then in turn mounted on the hull’s one inch thick plating.
		Warrior sits at the entrance to the Historic Dockyard, her imposing fl hull giving visitors a fine foretaste of what lies within.
		At the time of writing, Warrior’s rear section and a portion of her starboard hull are being worked on by restorers and cannot currently be seen.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /articles.php?p=2232&page=1&cat=59 (443 words)

	HMS Warrior 1860 info sheet
		HMS Warrior was to be the fastest, largest and most powerful warship in the world and was launched on 29th December 1860.
		In 1861, HMS Warrior sailed for Spithead for sea trials, and on 24th October of that year was handed over to the Admiralty.
		HMS Warrior was never involved in any actions and after 1881 served as a number of stationary uses, including being used as a training ship.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_warrior_1860.htm (499 words)

	HMS Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		HMS Warrior was launched on the 29th December, 1860 at Blackwall on the Thames.
		Warrior was the worlds first iron hulled armoured battleship.
		Warrior has masts because her engines were not sufficiently fuel efficient to do without them.She burned 11 tonnes of coal an hour at full speed.
	www.thomaskidd.com /warrior2.htm (137 words)

	42-038 HMS Warrior (size 1)
		Warrior’s great innovation was in being the first ocean going warship to have an iron hull.
		Captain A. Cochrane commissioned HMS Warrior as part of the Channel fleet on August 1, 1962, and her active-duty service was confined as such to the Channel fleet, in order to face the French threat at Cherbourg.
		In 1987, HMS Warrior 1860, as she is officially known, was towed to Portsmouth and put on permanent public display at the Naval Base.
	home.btconnect.com /houseofdrakeltd/42_038_hms_warrior1.html (392 words)

	HMS Warrior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The first Warrior, 74 was a third-rate ship of the line launched in 1781, a receiving ship after 1818, and broken up 1857.
		The fourth Warrior (R31) was a light fleet aircraft carrier launched in 1944, loaned to Canada 1946-48, and transferred to Argentina and renamed Independencia in 1958.
		The current HMS Warrior is the operational headquarters of the Royal Navy at Northwood near London.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/HMS_Warrior (150 words)

	HMS Warrior model ship - HMS Warrior model ship
		HMS Warrior’s great innovation was in being the first ocean going warship to have an iron hull.
		HMS Warrior was not included as a line of battleship.
		HMS Warrior then underwent a number of refits between 1864 and 1875.
	www.premiershipmodels.com /index.php/fuseaction/shop.product/categoryid/1/productid/130 (405 words)

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		It should also be remembered that HMS Warrior was a full ocean going warship, and in fact sailed to Canada and the West Indies during this period, while the Monitor was only suitable for coast defence duties and was very unseaworthy.
		However, it appears to me that the Warrior was not particularly innovative, all she appears to be is a rather conventional warship of the day with a coating of iron plates.
		Warrior was not particularly innovative, all she appears to be is a rather conventional warship of the day with a coating of iron plates.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /Forums/ViewPost.aspx?ForumID=35&ID=1960 (2366 words)

	HMS Warrior (1860) - the virtual tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Raising the anchor - HMS Warrior - facts and figures - Warrior - a short history
		The aim of the Warrior Preservation Trust has been to restore the ship, as near as possible, to her 1860s condition, and we want you to imagine that the ship's company has just gone ashore.
		But to feel the real Warrior and to take in the sights and smells of a Victorian warship it really is necessary to make your way to Portsmouth and come aboard.
	www.stvincent.ac.uk /Warrior/index2.html (294 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/HMS Warrior (1860)
		She was built for the Royal Navy as a counter to the first ocean-going ironclad, the French battleship La Gloire (launched 1859).
		The screw could be winched up clear of the water to reduce drag, although in practice the screws were run at low power when cruising, so as to prevent fouling.
		She was completed on 24 October 1861 at a cost of 357,291 pounds.The rapid march of naval technology meant that she and her sister Black Prince were obsolescent within ten years.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/HMS_Warrior_(1860) (466 words)

	HMS Warrior, Black Snake Among Rabbits
		The British Battleship HMS Warrior never fired a shot in anger and never blockaded a hostile port, yet she played a famous part in naval history.
		The Warrior was as well protected as the CSS Virginia, and boasted broadsides of six 100-pound Armstrong breech loading cannon, four 40-pound Armstrong breech loaders, and thirteen 68-pound smoothbore cannon.
		In 1864, the Warrior was paid-off for refitting.
	wtj.com /articles/warrior (1005 words)

	HMS 'Warrior' - - Port Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		HMS Warrior was the first sea-going iron hulled vessel in the world - some would call her the first modern warship.
		HMS Warrior pioneered a new era in armour, speed and firepower in naval warfare.
		HMS Warrior was built by Thames Ironworks at Blackwall between 25 May 1859 and 29 December 1860.
	www.portcities.org.uk /server/show/ConFactFile.44/HMS-Warrior.html (423 words)

	CALLING NOTICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		HMS Warrior 1860 is one of the world’s most significant historic warships.
		The last surviving member of Queen Victoria’s Black Battlefleet, HMS Warrior 1860 was Britain’s first ocean-going, iron hulled warship the largest, fastest and most powerful of her day.
		In view of the historic nature and construction of HMS Warrior, smoking is not permitted on board, officers are requested not to wear spurs and ladies are requested not to wear shoes with stiletto heels.
	www.scaf.org.uk /SummerReception04.htm (301 words)

	Inter Cash UK - bureau de change uk, american express travellers cheques, cheques travellers visa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Warrior House is both our Head Office and a branch office on the ground floor, the building getting its name from the fact that it is situated on The Hard, almost dead opposite HMS Warrior and the nearby Portsmouth Harbour railway station.
		HMS Warrior, now fully restored, is part of the tremendously popular Historic Dockyard tour.
		Iron clads were wooden hulled warships that had iron sheets hung along their sides for additional prtection against cannon balls, whereas the Warrior was actually the first iron hulled warship in the world - and a formidable sight she must have been when she was launched back in 1860.
	www.intercashuk.com /mainframe/pages/branchesfiles/warrior.html (456 words)

	Our Dogs Newspaper - News, showdogs, dog breeds, pedigree show dogs, stories, articles, puppies, kennel club, dog books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Allen said ‘There are always going to be limitations on accessibility to parts of historic attractions such as HMS Warrior to people with mobility problems.
		But being able to explore HMS Warrior virtually while ashore, so that one still feels the ambiance of the ship, really does take the hassle and worry out of the day.
		Allen also added; "to have been invited to test and launch this very innovative enhancement to the facilities on board HMS Warrior as a disabled person with his assistance dog was a great pleasure.
	www.ourdogs.co.uk /News/May2003/News090503/two.htm (510 words)

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