HMS Penelope (1867)
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Penelope at anchor
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| Class overview | |
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| Preceded by: | HMS Bellerophon |
| Succeeded by: | HMS Hercules |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| History | |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Penelope |
| Namesake: | Penelope |
| Ordered: | February 1865 |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Cost: | £196,789 |
| Laid down: | 4 September 1865 |
| Launched: | 18 June 1867 |
| Completed: | 27 June 1868 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 12 July 1912 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,470 long tons (4,540 t) |
| Length: | 260 ft (79.2 m) (pp) |
| Beam: | 50 ft (15.2 m) |
| Draught: | 16 ft 9 in (5.1 m) |
| Installed power: | 4,763 ihp (3,552 kW); 4 boilers |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts; 2 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines |
| Sail plan: | Ship-rigged |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range: | 1,370 nmi (2,540 km; 1,580 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 350 |
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HMS Penelope was a central-battery ironclad built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s and was rated as an armoured corvette. She was designed for inshore work with a shallow draught and this severely compromised her performance under sail. Completed in 1868, the ship spent the next year with the Channel Fleet before she was assigned to the First Reserve Squadron in 1869 and became the coast guard ship for Harwich until 1887. Penelope was mobilised as tensions with Russia rose during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 and participated in the Bombardment of Alexandria during the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. The ship became a receiving ship in South Africa in 1888 and then a prison hulk in 1897. She was sold for scrap in 1912.
The Chief Constructor, Sir Edward Reed, was ill so the design of this ship was entrusted to his assistant and brother-in-law, Nathaniel Barnaby, himself a future Chief Constructor. For reasons that have not survived, the Admiralty required that Penelope to be a ship of unusually shallow draught, possibly in light of the operations in the shallow Baltic Sea during the Crimean War of 1854–55.
The ship was 260 feet (79.2 m) long between perpendiculars and had a beam of 50 feet (15.2 m). She had a draught of 15 feet 9 inches (4.8 m) forward and 17 feet 4 inches (5.3 m) aft. Penelope displaced 6,034 long tons (6,131 t) and had a tonnage of 3,096 tons burthen. She had a complement of 350 officers and ratings. She was the first British capital ship to be fitted with a washroom.
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