HMS Black Prince (1861)
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HMS Black Prince in the 1880s
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| Name: | HMS Black Prince |
| Namesake: | Edward, the Black Prince |
| Ordered: | 6 October 1859 |
| Builder: | Robert Napier and Sons, Govan, Glasgow |
| Laid down: | 12 October 1859 |
| Launched: | 27 February 1861 |
| Completed: | 27 September 1862 |
| Commissioned: | May 1862 |
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| Reclassified: | As training ship, 1896 |
| Struck: | 1896 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1923 |
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| Class and type: | Warrior class armoured frigate |
| Displacement: | 9,137 long tons (9,284 t) |
| Length: | 420 ft (128.0 m) |
| Beam: | 58 ft 4 in (17.8 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft 10 in (8.2 m) |
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| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 Trunk steam engine |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Range: | 2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement: | 707 officers and enlisted men |
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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, HMS Warrior. For a brief period the two Warrior-class ironclads 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 2 inches (115.9 m) long between perpendiculars and 420 feet (128.0 m) long overall. She had a beam of 58 feet 4 inches (17.8 m) and a draught of 26 feet 10 inches (8.2 m). The ship displaced 9,137 long tons (9,284 t). 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-foot-6-inch (7.5 m) propeller. Ten rectangular boilers provided steam to the engine at a working pressure of 20 psi (138 kPa; 1 kgf/cm2). The engine produced a total of 5,772 indicated horsepower (4,304 kW) during Black Prince's sea trials in September 1862 and the ship had a maximum speed of 13.6 knots (25.2 km/h; 15.7 mph) under steam alone. The ship carried 800 long tons (810 t) of coal, enough to steam 2,100 nautical miles (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph).
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