HMS Howe (1860)

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

HMS Howe was built as a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She and her sister HMS Victoria were the first and only British three-decker ships of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion, but the Howe was never completed for sea service (and never served under her original name). During the 1860s, the first ironclad battleships gradually made unarmoured two- and three-deckers obsolete.

The former HMS Howe as the school ship HMS Impregnable in the 1890s.
History
Royal NavyUnited Kingdom
Name	Howe
Ordered	3 April 1854
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	10 March 1856
Launched	7 March 1860
Renamed	Bulwark — 3 December 1885 Impregnable — 27 September 1886 Bulwark (again) — December 1919
Fate	Sold for scrap, 18 February 1921
General characteristics
Class & type	Victoria-class ship of the line
Displacement	6,959 tons
Tons burthen	424571⁄94 bm
Length	260 ft (79.2 m)
Beam	61 ft 1 in (18.6 m)
Draught	20 ft 9 in (6.3 m)
Depth of hold	26 ft 10 in (8.2 m)
Installed power	8 boilers, 4,564 ihp (3,403 kW; 4,627 PS)
Propulsion	1 propeller shaft; 1 steam engine
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	13.6 knots (25.2 km/h; 15.7 mph)
Complement	1,000 officers and ratings
Armament	Lower gun deck: 32 × 8 in (203 mm) shell guns Middle gun deck: 30 × 8 in guns Upper gun deck: 32 × 32 pdr guns Quarter deck: 26 × 32 pdr guns, 1 × 68 pdr gun

Howe as school ship HMS Impregnable sometime between 1886 and 1919.

The highest number of guns she ever actually carried was 12, when she finally entered service as the training ship Bulwark in 1885.

Howe was named after Admiral Richard Howe. She was renamed a second time to Impregnable on 27 September 1886, but reverted to Bulwark in 1919 shortly before being sold for breaking up in 1921. The timbers were used to refurbish in the Tudor revivalist style the interior and fascia of the Liberty Store in London.^[1]

Howe's figurehead in Hunt's Green, Buckinghamshire)