HMS Shah (1873)

Shah at anchor
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Shah
Namesake	Shah of Persia
Owner	Royal Navy
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	7 March 1870
Launched	10 September 1873
Completed	December 1875
Commissioned	14 August 1876
Out of service	December 1904
Fate	Converted to Coal Storage Hulk C.470 Sold 19 September 1919 Wrecked in Bermuda 1926
General characteristics
Type	Unarmored steam frigate
Displacement	6,250 long tons (6,350 t)
Tons burthen	4,210 bm
Length	334 ft (101.8 m) (p/p)
Beam	52 ft (15.8 m)
Draught	25 ft 7 in (7.8 m)
Installed power	7,480 ihp (5,580 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder compound expansion steam engine 10 cylindrical boilers
Sail plan	Ship rig
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range	6,840 nmi (12,670 km; 7,870 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	600
Armament	2 × 9-inch (229 mm) rifled muzzle-loading guns 16 × 7-inch (178 mm) 6½ ton rifled muzzle-loading guns 8 × 5-inch (127 mm) breech-loading guns 3 × quick-firing guns 12 × machine guns 4 × torpedo launcher

The first HMS Shah was a nineteenth-century unarmoured iron hulled, wooden sheathed frigate of Britain's Royal Navy designed by Sir Edward Reed. She was originally to be named HMS Blonde but was renamed following the visit of the Shah of Persia in 1873.