HMS Lord Warden
HMS Lord Warden was the second and last ship of the wooden-hulled Lord Clyde class of armoured frigates built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the 1860s. She and her sister ship, Lord Clyde, were the heaviest wooden ships ever built and were also the fastest steaming wooden ships. They were also the slowest-sailing ironclads in the RN.
Lord Warden at anchor | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Lord Warden |
| Namesake | Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports |
| Ordered | 25 May 1863 |
| Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down | 24 December 1863 |
| Launched | 27 May 1865 |
| Completed | 30 August 1867 |
| Commissioned | July 1867 |
| Decommissioned | 1885 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1889 |
| General characteristics (as completed) | |
| Class and type | Lord Clyde-class armoured frigate |
| Displacement | 7,940 long tons (8,070 t) |
| Tons burthen | 4,080 (bm) |
| Length | 280 ft (85.3 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 59 ft (18 m) |
| Draught | 27 ft 11 in (8.5 m) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft; 1 horizontal return connecting rod-steam engine |
| Sail plan | Ship rig |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 605 |
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| Armour | |
After a brief deployment with the Channel Squadron upon commissioning in 1867, Lord Warden was transferred to the Mediterranean Squadron later that year. She became the squadron flagship in 1869 and retained that duty until 1875 when she returned home for a refit. Upon recommissioning the following year, the ship became the guardship of the First Reserve in the Firth of Forth. Lord Warden was mobilised in 1878 when war with Russia seemed imminent during the Russo-Turkish War. She was paid off in 1885 and broken up in 1889.