&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Penelope_(1867).jpg) Penelope at anchor
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Preceded by | HMS Bellerophon |
| Succeeded by | HMS Hercules |
| Completed | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| History | |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Penelope |
| Namesake | Penelope |
| Ordered | February 1865 |
| Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Cost | £196,789 |
| Laid down | 4 September 1865 |
| Launched | 18 June 1867 |
| Completed | 27 June 1868 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 12 July 1912 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 4,394 long tons (4,465 t) |
| Length | 260 ft (79.2 m) (pp) |
| Beam | 50 ft (15.2 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft 9 in (5.1 m) |
| Installed power | 4 boilers; 4,763 ihp (3,552 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines |
| Sail plan | Ship-rigged |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 1,370 nmi (2,540 km; 1,580 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 350 |
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HMS Penelope was a central-battery ironclad built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s and was rated as an armoured corvette. She was designed for inshore work with a shallow draught, and this severely compromised her performance under sail. Completed in 1868, the ship spent the next year with the Channel Fleet before she was assigned to the First Reserve Squadron in 1869 and became the coast guard ship for Harwich until 1887. Penelope was mobilised as tensions with Russia rose during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 and participated in the Bombardment of Alexandria during the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. The ship became a receiving ship in South Africa in 1888 and then a prison hulk in 1897. She was sold for scrap in 1912.