"HMS Warrior" 1860, Ironclad Battleship of the age of Sail and Steam "Portsmouth Historic Dockyard."

HMS Warrior was the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warship, built for the Royal Navy in response to the first ironclad warship, the French Gloire, launched a year earlier.
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When completed in October 1861, Warrior was the largest, fastest, most heavily armed and most heavily armoured warship the world had seen. She was almost twice the size of Gloire and thoroughly outclassed the French ship in speed, armour, and gunnery.
Warrior did not introduce any radical new technology, but for the first time combined steam engines, rifled breech-loading guns, iron construction, iron armour, and the propeller in one ship, and all built to an unprecedented scale.
Her construction started a competition between guns and armour that did not end until air power made battleships obsolete in the Second World War. Warrior became an early example of the trend towards rapid battleship obsolescence and was withdrawn as a fighting unit in May 1883. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Core Collection, she is now a museum ship in Portsmouth, England.

[@jameseberhardt2724]

If I had one week to live I would listen to this narrator because he makes every minute seem like a life time

[@MichaelHill-we7vt]

I've been working on HMS Warrior for nearly 32 years now, both full time as a member of the ship's security, and after retiring, as a volunteer guide.

[@mollyann9405]

I went on this ship last weekend for a wedding,it was closed off for the wedding and you could go basically everywhere on the boat!You could see all the old engines it was one of the best weddings I have ever went to

[@AndrewTheRadarMan]

Wow, what a stepup from the HMS Victory, the Warrior must have been a beast for its day!

[@memikell]

Went to see H.M.S. Victory (a must see) and found Warrior next door and instantly became my all time favorite museum ship

[@maerzen77wellcome]

Just set the video-speed to 1.25 if you don't want to fall asleep - that sounds really good!

[@somerandom7672]

1.5 works better. Even 2x.. Though he sounds like he's had a couple espressos, or like he just got a call from his girlfriend; saying her parents left the house for a few hours.

[@ian_b]

0.5 speed if you want it narrated by an unhappy drunk.

[@scarpaz]

Thanks for making this video!

[@MaxTSanches]

A beautifull ship. It gets better each time I visited it. The beginning of this script could be applied to Dreadnought too "at a stroke all other ships were made obsolite" :)

[@linerk5925]

I've been on this, its great!

[@ronaldgulliver6636]

like martin powers, use to swim off warrior when I lived in milford haven, then went to see her in Hartley pool being being work on at the time I was doing my family tree,and found my great grandfather was on warrior as a couler sergent which I did not know when I lived in milford haven small world have all his recods but no pictures, ron Gulliver.

[@5675492]

The narrator evidently went to the Winston Churchill School of Narration lol .

[@russwentz3957]

I too was thinking how he sounded like Winston Churchill!

[@jeffreyrobinson3555]

So well done. It’s funny to think Sovereign of the Seas could have held its own at trafalgar, but Warrior to Dreadnought a big investment only bought a few years of technology. Almost obsolete as she slid down the ways.

[@veinemeinen5662]

yea, i say it all the time, ppl dont see it. Welding came around 1915-20.. wtf? and material of warrior is incredible... unknown. The hull is very very old one....

[@mikewolfe386]

Hows the microphone taste?

[@androo9320]

Yegods. It sounds like Robin Leach munched a disco-biscuit.......

[@shuichiboy]

This is what happens when you give your narrator quaaludes.

[@thomashockin4128]

The Victorian officers had to be outstandingly brave to con the ship in battle!!

[@ifcdirector]

Would have been interesting to see it take on the Monitor class of the Union.

[@zerofox7347]

Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Fascinating ship it must have been amazing to the men that crewed her. Does anybody know how they dressed at this time, Were there still men working in bear feet?

[@fredblonder7850]

"Were there still men working in bear feet?" No. That would have been grizzly.

[@squarepants49]

HMS Warrior isn't an ironclad- it's a fully iron ship.

[@courtneyf8212]

i wanted to see how the removable propeller also vision of the prop i understand it was a 2 blade was put in place and also how the smoke stacks were deployed ....very dissapointed on that

[@gabrielbennett5162]

Beautiful ship. I wish America had had the foresight to save a couple examples of the Civil War ironclads, like a Union Monitor or one of the Confederate casemate types.

[@alanthomas2064]

Iron cads were as described! They were wooden ships clad WITH IRON! HMS warrior was the first truly iron ship!

[@tenohira3521]

is this a Total war Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai reference

[@denniscompton5800]

If not for the narrator this would be great.

[@oliviermosimann6931]

What a BEAUTIFUL SHIP ! And WHAT a CRAP COMMENTARY...

[@judgejury5276]

The Thames Iron Works & Ship Building Company Limited Bow Creek River Thames London - HMS Warrior - West Ham United FC COME ON YOU IRONS 'X'

[@fortboy66]

The French ship Gloire was the first ironclad ship

[@memikell]

ignoring the CSS Virginia and USS monitor?

[@keithwaites9991]

The Warrior was all iron, not cladded. It was seagoing, unlike US ironclads. It was launched in 1861.

[@fortboy66]

The hull was iron, then layers of wood, then the visible armour plate. The wood was used as it was thought at the time that it would help absorb some of the impact of any shells hitting the armour plate above.

[@MichaelHill-we7vt]

they are not Lee-Enfield rifles....they are 1858 Enfield sea service rifles, of .577 calibre..Lee-Enfield rifles did not come into use until the 1890's, the legendary Lee-Enfield .303 rifle of World War I and World War II fame, first entered service in 1895.... ............HMS Warrior was never ever classified as a battleship, her official designation when she entered service was "40-gun screw ship(Iron)" because technically, having just one gun-deck, she was a frigate......however, the Admiralty manning regulations only allowed for a frigate to have a maximum complement of 380, which was nowhere near enough for a ship the size of HMS Warrior, so she was given the unusual classification in order to allow the necessary complement, which was 705 officers and men, she can be viewed as a battleship though, despite her official classification, because although just having a single gun-deck, she could outgun any other warship afloat at the time, and was the single most powerful warship in the world, which I suppose is the very definition of the battleship..................Also, technically speaking HMS Warrior is not an ironclad, since to be an ironclad ship the hull must be of wood construction that is clad in iron armour.....HMS Warrior's hull is entirely constructed of wrought iron, armoured with 22.5" of armour comprising 4.5" iron plates, backed by 18" of teak acting as a shock absorber.....the armour alone weighs 1500 tons, thus accounting for approx one sixth of the entire weight of the ship....

[@alanthomas2064]

The warrior isn't "ironclad" it's the first iron warship!

[@kennethainsworth1716]

Excellent video, but extremely monotonous dialogue. Video should be redone with more active voice over.

[@catsupchutney]

The narration is a bit, shall we say, over the top.

[@Bobfelli]

In fact she was not the first ironclad warship. That honor goes to the French Gloire. Warrior was actually built to counter and exceed the Gloire`so capabilities. Warrior was also much better looking.

[@MichaelHill-we7vt]

Warrior is NOT an ironclad.............The word Ironclad means "clad in iron" usually a wooden hull clad in iron..Warrior is a warship built of iron, so she most certainly is not an "ironclad". She is an iron hulled, armoured warship.

[@veinemeinen5662]

BS