HMS Audacious (1869)
A sister ship, HMS Vanguard
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| Name: | HMS Audacious |
| Ordered: | 29 April 1867 |
| Builder: | Robert Napier, Govan |
| Cost: | £256,291 |
| Laid down: | 26 June 1867 |
| Launched: | 27 February 1869 |
| Completed: | 10 September 1870 |
| Commissioned: | October 1870 |
| Decommissioned: | 1894 |
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| Reclassified: | Depot ship in 1902; training hulk 1906; receiving ship in 1914; storeship in 1920. |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 15 March 1927 |
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| Class and type: | Audacious-class ironclad |
| Displacement: | 6,034 long tons (6,131 t) |
| Length: | 280 ft (85.3 m) |
| Beam: | 54 ft (16.5 m) |
| Draught: | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Installed power: | 4,021 ihp (2,998 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 horizontal return connecting rod steam engine |
| Sail plan: | ship rigged |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range: | 1,260 nmi (2,330 km; 1,450 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 450 |
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HMS Audacious was the lead ship of the Audacious-class ironclads built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They were designed as second-class ironclads suitable for use on foreign stations and the ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was decommissioned in 1894 and hulked in 1902 for use as a training ship. The ship was towed to Scapa Flow after the beginning of the First World War to be used as a receiving ship and then to Rosyth after the war ended. Audacious was sold for scrap in 1929.
The Audacious-class ironclads were laid out as central battery ironclads with the armament concentrated amidships. They were the first British ironclads to have a two-deck battery with the upper deck guns sponsoned out over the sides of the hull. The ships were fitted with a short, plough-shaped ram and their crew numbered 450 officers and men.
HMS Audacious was 280 feet (85.3 m) long between perpendiculars. She had a beam of 54 feet (16.5 m) and a draught of 23 feet (7.0 m). The ship was first British ironclad to be completed below her designed displacement; this meant that she was top heavy and required 360 long tons (370 t) of cement ballast to raise her metacentric height. Audacious, and her sisters, were the steadiest gun platforms among the large British ironclads of their era.Audacious was given an experimental zinc sheath for her hull in an attempt to reduce biofouling that proved unsuccessful.
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