booklet HMS WARRIOR THE FIRST MODERN BATTLESHIP walter brownlee

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booklet HMS WARRIOR THE FIRST MODERN BATTLESHIP walter brownlee
booklet HMS WARRIOR THE FIRST MODERN BATTLESHIP walter brownlee
WARRIOR:
THE FIRST MODERN BATTLESHIP
By Walter Brownlee
with a foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh K.G., K.T.
Printed in 1987
48 pages  - Softcover (8 inches - 21 cm tall)
Photos - Index
CONDITION: Good, small tear to front cover (see photo). B
inding solid, pages clean, etc.
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1873 commissioning of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, she was placed in reserve in 1875, and was "paid off" – decommissioned – in 1883.
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