HMS Iron Duke (1870)
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Iron Duke at anchor
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| Name: | HMS Iron Duke |
| Namesake: | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
| Ordered: | 26 September 1867 |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Cost: | £208,763 |
| Laid down: | 23 August 1868 |
| Launched: | 1 March 1870 |
| Completed: | 21 January 1871 |
| Commissioned: | 1 April 1871 |
| Decommissioned: | 1890 |
| Reclassified: | Converted to coal hulk, 1900 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 15 May 1906 |
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| Class and type: | Audacious-class ironclad |
| Tonnage: | 3,774 (bm) |
| Displacement: | 6,034 long tons (6,131 t) |
| Length: | 280 ft (85.3 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 54 ft (16.5 m) |
| Draught: | 22 ft 7 in (6.9 m) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 shafts; 2 horizontal-return, connecting-rod steam engines |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement: | 450 |
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HMS Iron Duke was the last of four Audacious-class central battery ironclads built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. Completed in 1871, the ship was briefly assigned to the Reserve Fleet as a guardship in Ireland, before she was sent out to the China Station as its flagship. Iron Duke returned four years later and resumed her duties as a guardship. She accidentally rammed and sank her sister ship, Vanguard, in a heavy fog in mid-1875 and returned to the Far East in 1878. The ship ran aground twice during this deployment and returned home in 1883. After a lengthy refit, Iron Duke was assigned to the Channel Fleet in 1885 and remained there until she again became a guardship in 1890. The ship was converted into a coal hulk a decade later and continued in that role until 1906 when she was sold for scrap and broken up.
The Audacious class was designed as a second-class ironclad intended for overseas service. They were 280 feet (85.3 m) long between perpendiculars and had a beam of 54 feet (16.5 m). Iron Duke had a draught of 21 feet 7 inches (6.6 m) forward and 22 feet 7 inches (6.9 m) aft. The Audacious-class ships displaced 6,034 long tons (6,131 t) and had a tonnage of 3,774 tons burthen. They had a complement of 450 officers and ratings.
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