Name: | TRIUMPH |
Type: | Battleship |
Keel: | 31/08/1868 |
Launched: | 27/09/1870 |
Completed: | 08/04/1873 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 241 |
Dimensions: | 6640disp, 280.0 x 55.0 x 26.0(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2cyl, 4890ihp; also rigged as a Ship |
Engines by: | Maudslay & Co, London |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 14.0knots; also sails |
Construction: | Iron |
Armament: | 10 x 1 x 9.0ins, 4 x 1 x 6ins, 6 x 1 x 20pdr guns |
History: | |
08/04/1873 | British Royal Navy |
04/1904 | Renamed TENEDOS |
1912 | Renamed INDUS IV |
01/1915 | Renamed ALGIERS |
07/01/1921 | Broken up |
Comments: | The last British battleship to be fitted with a hoisting screw |
Member of the SWIFTSURE Class of battleships | |
1900: Disarmed & used as a depot ship at Plymouth | |
1903: Engines removed & used as a training ship; renamed TENEDOS | |
1905: Used as a tender to WARRIOR | |
1910: Used as a training ship at Devonport; renamed INDUS IV | |
1914: Floating store at Invergordon; renamed ALGIERS | |
07/01/1921: Sold to Fryer for breaking up at Sunderland |
Above photo as TRIUMPH is copyright of the Illustrated London News
Above photo as TRIUMPH is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as TRIUMPH is courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo as TENEDOS is copyright of the Imperial War Museum