HMS Neptune (1874)
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HMS Neptune was an ironclad turret ship originally designed and built in Britain for Brazil, but acquired for the Royal Navy in 1878. Modifications to suit the Royal Navy took three years to complete and the ship did not begin her first commission until 1883 with the Channel Fleet. She was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1885, but refitted in Portsmouth in 1886–87. Neptune then became the coastguard ship for the 1st Class Reserve at Holyhead until 1893 when she was placed in reserve in Portsmouth. While she was being towed to the breakers in 1903, Neptune unintentionally rammed HMS Victory, then serving as a training hulk for the Naval Signal School, collided with HMS Hero, and narrowly missed several other ships. She was scrapped in Germany in 1904.
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Name | HMS Neptune |
Namesake | Neptune |
Builder | J & W Dudgeon, Cubitt Town, London |
Cost | £600,000 |
Laid down | 1873 |
Launched | 10 September 1874 |
Completed | 3 September 1881 |
Acquired | February–March 1878 |
Commissioned | 28 March 1883 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 15 September 1903 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ironclad turret ship |
Displacement | 8,964 long tons (9,108 t) |
Length | 300 ft (91.4 m) (p/p) |
Beam | 63 ft (19.2 m) |
Draught | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Installed power | 8,832 ihp (6,586 kW) |
Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 2-cylinder Trunk steam engine, 8 rectangular boilers |
Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Range | 1,480 nmi (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 541 |
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