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HMS Invincible (1869)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Invincible.
HMS Invincible was a Royal Navy Audacious-class ironclad battleship. She was built at the Napier shipyard and completed in 1870. Completed just 10 years after HMS Warrior, she still carried sails as well as a steam engine.
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![]() HMS Invincible off Plymouth, 1870 | |
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Name | Invincible |
Builder | Robert Napier and Sons |
Laid down | 28 June 1867 |
Launched | 29 May 1869 |
Commissioned | 1 October 1870 |
Renamed | HMS Erebus, 1904; Fisgard II, 1906 |
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Fate | Sank, 17 September 1914 |
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Class and type | Audacious-class ironclad battleship |
Displacement | 6,106 long tons (6,204 t) |
Length | 280 ft (85 m) |
Beam | 54 ft (16 m) |
Draught | 22 ft 7 in (6.88 m) |
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Propulsion | 1 × coal-fired reciprocating steam engine |
Speed | Steam: 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) Sail: 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 450 |
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