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UNITED KINGDOM
EREBUS ironclad floating batteries (1856)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erebus | Robert Napier & Sons, Govan | 1855 | 19.4.1856 | 1856? | never at sea, sold 5.1884 | ||
| Thunderbolt | Samuda Brothers, Millwall | 26.12.1855 | 22.4.1856 | 1856? | floating pierhead 11.1873 | ||
| Terror | Palmer Brothers, Jarrow | 31.12.1855 | 28.4.1856 | 14.7.1857 // --- | completed as base ship |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 1955bm |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 56.9 pp |
| Breadth, m | 14.8 |
| Draught, m | 2.72 aft |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, boilers |
| Power, h. p. | 200nhp |
| Max speed, kts | 5.5 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armour, mm | iron; side: 114 |
| Armament | 16 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML |
| Complement | 200 |
Project history
Iron-hulled. First iron-hulled ironclads ever built. Design was adapted from that of the modified French design for the wooden-hulled floating batteries.
Ship protection
114mm iron plates protected the sides.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
