HMS Iris (1877)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Iris.
HMS Iris the lead ship of her class of two ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. They were the first all-steel warships to serve with the Royal Navy.
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A lithograph of Iris | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Iris |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | 10 November 1875 |
Launched | 12 April 1877 |
Completed | April 1879 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 11 July 1905 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Iris-class despatch vessel, later second-class cruiser |
Displacement | 3,730 long tons (3,790 t) |
Length | 331 ft 6 in (101 m) |
Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
Draught | 20 ft 6 in (6.2 m) |
Installed power | 12 boilers; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × compound-expansion steam engines |
Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Range | 4,400 nmi (8,100 km; 5,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 275 |
Armament | 10 × 64 pdr rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns |
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