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Name

Guns

Horse- power

Tonnage

Material of hull

Year of launch

Lord Clyde

24

1,000

4,067

Wood

1864

Lord Warden

18

1,000

4,080

Wood

1865

fMagdala.

4

250

2,107

Iron

1S70

Minotaur.

34

1,350

6,621.

Iron

1866


 * Monareh.

7

1,100

5,102

Iron

1869

Northumberland

28

] ,350

6,621.

Iron

1866

Ocean

24

1,000

4,047

Wood

1863

Pallas

6

600

2,372

Wood

1865

Penelope.

11

600

3,096

Iron

1867


 * Prince Albert

4

500

2,537

Iron

1864

Prince Consort

24

1,000

4,045

Wood

1862

Kepulse

12

800

3,749

Wood

1868

Research.

4

200

1,253

Wood

1863

Resistance.

16

600

3,710

Iron

1861

Royal Alfred

18

800

4,068

Wood

1864

Royal Oak

24

800

4,056

Wood

1862


 * Royal Sovereign

5

800

3,765

Wood

1864


 * Rupert

3

700

3,159

Iron

1872


 * Scorpion.

4

350

1,833

Iron

1863

Sultan

12

1,200

5,234

Iron

1870

Swiftsure.

14

800

3,893

Iron

1871

Terror

16

200

1,971

Iron

1856

Thunder.

14

150

1,469

Iron

1856

Thunderbolt

16

200

1,973

Iron

1856


 * Thunderer.

4

800

4,406

Iron

1872

Triumph.

14

800

3,893

Iron

1871

Valiant

18

800

4,063.

Iron

1863

Vanguard.

14

800

3,774

Iron

1870

Viper

2

160

737

Iron

1865

Vixen

2

160

745

Wood

1865

Warrior

32

1,250

6,109

Iron

1860

Waterwitch

2

167

777

Iron

1866


 * Wirern

4

350

1,899

Iron

1863

Zealous

20

800

3,716

Wood

1864

Three of the vessels in the above list form part of a new class called Her Majesty's Navy for the Defence of the Colonies. The turret ships Abyssinia and Magdala were built for the defence of Bombay, and the turret-ship Cerberus, paid for by the Colony of Victoria, for the defence of Melbourne.

The cost of the principal ships of the ironclad fleet of war, together with particulars as to construction, is given in the subjoined table, drawn up on the basis of returns made by the admiralty, and statements by Mr. E. J. Reed, chief constructor of the navy till 1870. The cost given represents actual outlay on labour and materials, but does not include establishment charges at the royal dockyards, calculated to amount to an additional 12^ per cent. Sums marked in parentheses are only estimates, the actual cost not having been ascertained.