HMS Warrior Manual

by David Baker and Boojkdl ajdp

Designed and built to challenge an aggressive French shipbuilding program in the late 1850s, when commissioned, the 40-gun, steam-powered, ironclad HMS Warrior was the largest warship in the world.

The revolutionary design housed the main guns, 10 boilers, and steam engine inside an impregnable armored "box", or citadel, made from 41/2in thick wrought iron plates. Warrior is the only surviving example of Britain's "Black Battlefleet"--the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785211064
• ISBN13: 9781785211065
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.7"