HMS Caledonia (1862)
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History | |
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Name | HMS Caledonia |
Builder | Woolwich Dockyard |
Laid down | 10 October 1860 |
Launched | 24 October 1862 |
Completed | July 1865 |
Fate | Broken up, 1886 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Prince Consort-class ironclad |
Displacement | 6,832 long tons (6,942 t) |
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Sail plan | Single-topsail barque, sail area 25,000 sq ft (2,300 m2) |
Speed | |
Complement | 605 |
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Armour | Battery and belt: 4.5 in (110 mm) amidships and 3 in (76 mm) fore and aft |
HMS Caledonia was a broadside ironclad of the Prince Consort class. Originally laid down as a two-decker steam ship of the line of the Bulwark class, Caledonia was converted on the building stocks into an armoured frigate.
Service history[]
HMS Caledonia was not completed until July 1865 due to a delay in the delivery of her main armament. Once this was installed, she was commissioned as Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet, becoming the first ever armoured flagship of the Royal Navy.
She was temporarily withdrawn from service in 1866 for reconstruction which involved the addition of a poop deck. Following this, she was flagship of the Channel Fleet until 1867, when she was paid off for re-armament.
HMS Caledonia was flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet until 1869 (relieving HMS Victoria, the last three-deck Royal Navy flagship) until 1872.[citation needed] In July 1871, she ran aground off Santorini, Greece. She was later refloated and taken in to Malta for repairs.[1] She was a guardship in the Firth of Forth from 1872 until 1875.[citation needed][dubious ] On 15 June 1873, Caledonia was in collision with the British ship Hogton Tower off St. Alban's Head, Dorset. Hogton Tower was severely damaged at the bows; Caledonia towed her in to Spithead, Hampshire. Caledonia had been serving as a Coastguard vessel at Birkenhead, Cheshire and was sailing to Portsmouth, Hampshire for a forthcoming inspection of the fleet by the Shah of Persia.[2] She was paid off at Plymouth, and was laid up there until she was sold on 30 September 1886.[citation needed]
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- Clowes, William Laird Four Modern Naval Campaigns, Historical Strategical, and Tactical, first published Unit Library, 1902, reprinted Cornmarket Press, 1970.
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- Prince Consort-class ironclads
- Bulwark-class battleships (1859)
- Victorian-era battleships of the United Kingdom
- Ships built in Woolwich
- 1862 ships
- Maritime incidents in July 1871
- Maritime incidents in June 1873