HMS Valiant (1863)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Valiant |
| Ordered: | 25 January 1861 |
| Builder: | |
| Laid down: | February 1861 |
| Launched: | 14 October 1863 |
| Completed: | 15 September 1868 |
| Commissioned: | September 1868 |
| Decommissioned: | 1885 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1956 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Hector-class armoured frigate |
| Displacement: | 7,000 long tons (7,100 t) |
| Length: | 280 ft 2 in (85.4 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft 4 in (17.2 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft 2 in (8.0 m) |
| Installed power: | 3,560 ihp (2,650 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 horizontal return connecting rod steam engine |
| Sail plan: | Barque-rigged |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range: | 800 nmi (1,500 km; 920 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 530 |
| Armament: | |
| Armour: | |
HMS Valiant was the second ship of the Hector-class armoured frigates ordered by the Royal Navy in 1861. Her builders went bankrupt shortly after she was laid down, which significantly delayed her completion. After being launched in 1863, she waited a further five years to receive her guns due to supply issues. Upon being commissioned in 1868 the ship was assigned as the First Reserve guard ship for Southern Ireland, where she remained until she was decommissioned in 1885. Valiant was hulked in 1897 as part of the stoker training school HMS Indus before becoming a storeship for kite balloons during the First World War. The ship was converted to a floating oil tank in 1926 and served in that role until sold for scrap in 1956.
The Hector-class ironclads, like their immediate predecessors, the Defence class, were designed as smaller and cheaper versions of the Warrior-class armoured frigates. They were modified versions of the Defence-class ships with additional armour and more powerful engines.
Valiant was 280 feet 2 inches (85.4 m) long between perpendiculars. She had a beam of 56 feet 4 inches (17.2 m) and a draft of 26 feet 2 inches (8.0 m). The ship was 300 long tons (300 t) overweight and displaced 7,000 long tons (7,100 t). The hull was subdivided by watertight transverse bulkheads into 92 compartments and had a double bottom underneath the engine and boiler rooms. The ships of her class were designed with a very low centre of gravity and had a metacentric height of 4 feet 6 inches (1.4 m). While handy in manoeuvring, they rolled quite badly.
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