1861 жылғы "Warrior" классындағы темір кеме ("Black Prince")

1861 Warrior class ironclad ship

HMS Black Prince was the third ship of that name to serve with the Royal Navy. She was the world's second ocean going, iron hulled, armoured warship, following her sister ship, For a brief period the two s were the most powerful warships in the world, being virtually impregnable to the naval guns of the time. Rapid advances in naval technology left Black Prince and her sister obsolete within a short time, however, and she spent more time in reserve and training roles than in first line service. Black Prince spent her active career with the Channel Fleet and was hulked in 1896, becoming a harbour training ship in Queenstown, Ireland. She was renamed Emerald in 1903 and then Impregnable III in 1910 when she was assigned to the training establishment in Plymouth. The ship was sold for scrap in 1923.

HMS Black Prince was 380 feet (116 m) long between perpendiculars and 420 feet (128 m) long overall. She had a beam of 58 feet (18 m) and a draught of 26 feet (8 m). The ship displaced The hull was subdivided by watertight transverse bulkheads into 92 compartments and had a double bottom underneath the engine and boiler rooms.

The Warrior class ships had one 2 cylinder trunk steam engine made by John Penn and Sons driving a single 24 feet (7 m) propeller. Ten rectangular boilers provided steam to the engine at a working pressure of The engine produced a total of during Black Princes sea trials in September 1862 and the ship had a maximum speed of under steam alone. The ship carried of coal, enough to steam at
The ironclads were ship rigged and had a sail area of Black Prince could only do under sail, slower than her sister
The solid shot of the 68 pounder gun weighed approximately while the gun itself weighed The gun had a muzzle velocity of and had a range of at an elevation of 12°. The shell of the 110 pounder Armstrong breech loader weighed It had a muzzle velocity of and, at an elevation of 11.25°, a maximum range of The shell of the 40 pounder breech loading gun was in diameter and weighed The gun had a maximum range of at a muzzle velocity of In 1863–1864 the 40 pounder guns were replaced by a heavier version with the same ballistics. All of the guns could fire both solid shot and explosive shells. Black Prince was rearmed during her 1867–1868 refit with twenty four 7 inch and four rifled muzzle loading guns. The ship also received four 20 pounder breech loading guns for use as saluting guns. The shell of the 15 calibre 8 inch gun weighed while the gun itself weighed It had a muzzle velocity of and was credited with the ability to penetrate a nominal of wrought iron armour at the muzzle. The 16 calibre 7 inch gun weighed and fired a shell. It was credited with the nominal ability to penetrate armour.

The sides of Black Prince were protected by an armour belt of wrought iron, thick, that covered the middle 213 feet (65 m) of the ship. The ends of the ship were left entirely unprotected, which meant that the steering gear was very vulnerable. The armour extended 16 feet (5 m) above the waterline and 6 feet (2 m) below it. 4.5 inch transverse bulkheads protected the guns on the main deck. The armour was backed by of teak. from Robert Napier and Sons in Govan, Glasgow, for the price of £377,954. The ship was laid down on 12 October 1859 and launched 27 February 1861. Her completion was delayed by a drydock accident at Greenock while fitting out, which damaged her masts. She steamed to Spithead in November 1861 with only jury rigged fore and mizzenmasts. The ship was commissioned in June 1862, but was not completed until 12 September 1862. Black Prince was again refitted in 1874–1875, gaining a poop deck, and rejoined the Channel Fleet as flagship of Rear Admiral Sir John Dalrymple Hay, second in command of the fleet. In 1878 Captain H. R. H. Duke of Edinburgh took command and the ship crossed the Atlantic to participate in the installation of a new Governor General of Canada. Upon her return Black Prince was placed in reserve at Devonport, and, reclassified as an armoured cruiser, she was reactivated periodically to take part in annual fleet exercises. Black Prince was hulked in 1896 as a harbour training ship, stationed at Queenstown, and was renamed Emerald in 1903. In 1910 the ship was moved to Plymouth and renamed Impregnable III when she was assigned to the training school HMS Impregnable before she was sold for scrap on 21 February 1923.