&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Black_Prince_(1861).jpg) Black Prince in the 1880s
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Black Prince |
| Namesake | Edward, the Black Prince |
| Ordered | 6 October 1859 |
| Builder | Robert Napier and Sons, Govan, Glasgow |
| Laid down | 12 October 1859 |
| Launched | 27 February 1861 |
| Completed | 27 September 1862 |
| Commissioned | May 1862 |
| Renamed |
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| Reclassified | As a training ship, 1896 |
| Stricken | 1896 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Warrior class armoured frigate |
| Displacement | 9,137 long tons (9,284 t) |
| Length | 420 ft (128.0 m) |
| Beam | 58 ft 4 in (17.8 m) |
| Draught | 26 ft 10 in (8.2 m) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 Trunk steam engine |
| Sail plan | Ship rig |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Range | 2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 707 |
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| Armour | |
HMS Black Prince was the third ship of that name to serve with the Royal Navy. She was the world's second ocean-going, iron-hulled, armoured warship, following her sister ship, HMS Warrior. For a brief period the two Warrior-class ironclads were the most powerful warships in the world, being virtually impregnable to the naval guns of the time. Rapid advances in naval technology left Black Prince and her sister obsolete within a short time, however, and she spent more time in reserve and training roles than in first-line service.
Black Prince spent her active career with the Channel Fleet and was hulked in 1896, becoming a harbour training ship in Queenstown, Ireland. She was renamed Emerald in 1903 and then Impregnable III in 1910 when she was assigned to the training establishment in Plymouth. The ship was sold for scrap in 1923.