HMS Hero (1885)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Hero.
HMS Hero was the second and final Conqueror-class battleship. She was an ironclad who served in the Victorian Royal Navy.
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Painting of HMS Hero by William Frederick Mitchell | |
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Name | HMS Hero |
Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
Laid down | 11 April 1884 |
Launched | 27 October 1885 |
Commissioned | May 1888 |
Fate | Sunk as target, 18 February 1908 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Conqueror-class ironclad battleship |
Displacement | 6,440 long tons (6,540 t) |
Length | 270 ft (82 m) |
Beam | 58 ft (18 m) |
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Installed power | 4,500 ihp (3,400 kW) |
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Speed | 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
Complement | 330 |
Armament | 2 × BL 12 in (300 mm) guns, 4 × 6 in (150 mm) guns, 7 × 6 pdr (2.7 kg) guns, 6 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes, armoured ram |
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The Conqueror-class ships were designed to be improved versions of Rupert with a ram as their main armament. It was assumed by the Board of Admiralty and within Naval Architecture circles, that the supremacy of armour over artillery would allow such a ship to ram an enemy vessel without being seriously damaged by enemy gunfire. This assumption was never tested in action.