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HMS Minotaur - Battleship
Country : UK Launched : 12th December 1863
Minotaur Class ironclad built 1863-66. Ships of the class were HMS Minotaur, HMS Agincourt and a half-sister, HMS Northumberland. These Broadside Ironclades were initially proposed as 50 gun armoured frigates.
Complement: 705.
10690 tons displacement. Length 407 ft.oa, beam 59 ft. 6 in., draught 27 ft. 9 in.
Machinery: Penn 2 cyl. horizontal single expansion trunk engine. Single screw. Speed 14.4 kts.
Five masted.
Bunkers:750 tons. (1200 miles at 10 kts.).
Armament: 4 x 9" RML, 24 x 7" RML, 8 x 24 pdr brass howitzers. Later 17 x 9" RML.
Ordered as ELEPHANT but name changed to MINOTAUR soon after. Became Training Ship BOSCAWEN in 1904; GANGES 1906; GANGES II 1908. Sold 1922.
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