HMS Resistance (1861)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Resistance.

Resistance in 1861, by Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton
History
United Kingdom
Ordered14 December 1859
BuilderWestwood, Baillie, Poplar, London
Laid down21 December 1859
Launched11 April 1861
Completed5 October 1862
CommissionedJuly 1862
Decommissioned1880
Nickname(s)Old Rammo
FateSold for scrap, 11 November 1898
General characteristics
Class and typeDefence-class armoured frigate
Displacement6,070 long tons (6,170 t)
Length280 ft (85.3 m)
Beam54 ft 2 in (16.5 m)
Draught26 ft 2 in (8 m)
Installed power
Propulsion1 shaft, 1 trunk steam engine
Sail planShip rig
Speed11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range1,670 nmi (3,090 km; 1,920 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement460
Armament
Armour
A lithograph of the launching of Resistance, 11 April 1861

HMS Resistance was the second of two Defence-class ironclads[Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in the 1860s. She was the first capital ship in the Royal Navy to be fitted with a ram and was given the nickname of Old Rammo.[1] Resistance was initially assigned to the Channel Fleet upon commissioning, but was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1864, the first ironclad to be assigned to that fleet. She was rearmed in 1867 and became a guardship when recommissioned in 1869. The ship was reassigned to the Channel Fleet in 1873 before reverting to her former duties in 1877. Resistance was decommissioned in 1880 and was used for gunnery and torpedo trials beginning in 1885. The ship was sold for scrap in 1898 and foundered in 1899 en route to the breaker's yard. She was salvaged and later scrapped.


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