&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Hector_(1862).jpg) Line drawing from Brassey's Naval Annual 1888
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Hector |
| Namesake | Hector |
| Ordered | 25 January 1861 |
| Builder | Robert Napier and Sons, Govan |
| Cost | £294,000 |
| Laid down | 8 March 1861 |
| Launched | 26 September 1862 |
| Completed | 22 February 1864 |
| Commissioned | January 1864 |
| Refit | 1867–1868 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1905 |
| General characteristics (Hector) | |
| Class and type | Hector-class armoured frigate |
| Displacement | 7,000 long tons (7,100 t) |
| Length | 280 ft 2 in (85.4 m) |
| Beam | 56 ft 5 in (17.2 m) |
| Draught | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Installed power | 3,256 ihp (2,428 kW) |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 HRCR steam engine |
| Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 800 nmi (1,500 km; 920 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 530 |
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| Armour | |
HMS Hector was the lead ship of the Hector-class armoured frigates ordered by the Royal Navy in 1861. Upon completion in 1864, she was assigned to the Channel Fleet. The ship was paid off in 1867 to refit and be re-armed. Upon recommissioning in 1868, she was assigned as the guard ship of the Fleet Reserve in the southern district until 1886. She usually served as Queen Victoria's guard ship when the sovereign was resident at her vacation home on the Isle of Wight. Hector was paid off in 1886 and hulked in 1900 as a storage ship before being sold for scrap in 1905.