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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Arthur|nick=William Arthur|appt=31 August, 1871{{NLJul72|p. 157}}|end=18 May, 1875|precBy=New Command}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Richard Edward Tracey|nick=Richard E. Tracey|appt=3 January, 1881|end=18 December, 1882}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Craven St. John|nick=Henry C. St. John|appt=28 August, 1885{{NLSep85|p. 219}}|end=}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Hornby Boyle|nick=Robert H. Boyle|appt=11 December, 1886{{NLFeb88|p. 215}}|end=}}
 
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Revision as of 10:49, 25 February 2020

H.M.S. Iron Duke (1870)
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[1]
Ordered: 1867 Estimates[2]
Laid down: 23 Aug, 1868[3]
Launched: 1 Mar, 1870[4]
Commissioned: 21 Jan, 1871[5]
Sold: 1906[6]
H.M.S. Iron Duke was one of four Audacious Class central battery ironclads completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Portsmouth on 9 May, 1890 eventually to replace H.M.S. Devastation in the Coast Guard Service, Queensferry, North Britain.[7] First, however, she participated in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1890 under the command of Captain Frederick S. Vander-Meulen as part of the Hostile Fleet tasked with threatening British trade routes.[8]

In mid 1893, it was announced that the old battleship, now only capable of eleven knots, would be replaced at Queensferry by the armoured cruiser Galatea, which could still make fifteen knots.[9] She was paid off on 2 May under the care of a Staff Commander.[10]

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See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 15.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 231.
  8. ↑ "Naval Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 19, 1890; pg. 12; Issue 33068.
  9. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 4 Apr. 1893, p. 5.
  10. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 3 May 1893, p. 10.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1872). p. 157.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1885). p. 219.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 215.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 231.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1901). p. 270.


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