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| Name | Algiers (launched as Triumph, 1870) | Explanation | |
| Type | Central battery ironclad | ||
| Launched | 27 September 1870 | ||
| Hull | Iron | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | 6640 tons | ||
| Guns | 14 | ||
| Fate | 1921 | ||
| Class | Swiftsure | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/481 | ||
| Note | 1900 h.s. 1904 = Tenedos d.s. then t.s. 1912 = Indus IV. 1915 = Algiers | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 12 March 1873 - 31 December 1873 | Commanded by Captain John Dobree McCrea, Channel squadron | ||
| 1 January 1874 - 6 July 1875 | Commanded by Captain Henry Duncan Grant, Channel squadron | ||
| 14 July 1875 - 26 April 1877 | Commanded by Captain George Henry Parkin, Mediterranean | ||
| 1 May 1878 - 1 December 1878 | Commanded by Captain Richard Bradshaw, Pacific | ||
| 2 December 1878 - 11 February 1880 | Commanded by Captain Frederick George Denham Bedford, flagship of Rear-Admiral Algernon Frederick Rous De Horsey on the Pacific station | ||
| 8 October 1879 - 24 October 1882 | Commanded by Captain Albert Hastings Markham, flagship of Rear-Admiral Frederick Henry Stirling then Rear-Admiral Algernon McLennan Lyons, Pacific station | ||
| 1904 | Renamed Tenedos | ||
| 1912 | Renamed Indus IV | ||
| 1915 | Renamed Algiers | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Tu 16 April 1878 | Several of the ships which had been pushed forward at Portsmouth with all possible despatch in readiness for a probable great emergency [the 1877 Anglo-Russian crisis ] are being told off at the present time for unexpectedly tranquil destinations. The Boadicea, 14, unarmoured corvette, was brought alongside the jetty yesterday morning, and is to be commissioned for foreign service on the 18th inst. She is expected to relieve the Undaunted, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Corbett, on the East India station. The Hercules, 14, which had been named for the Mediterranean, and also as the new flag-ship in the West Indies, is ordered to relieve the Narcissus as ship of the First Reserve at Greenock. The Narcissus, which will turn over her crew on being relieved, will proceed at once to Portsmouth to have her defects made good. The Hercules tried her electric light apparatus last night in the dockyard. The Triumph, 14, which is to be commissioned by Captain Bradshaw on the 25th inst., is to supersede the Shah as the flagship of Rear-Admiral De Horsey in the Pacific. It is expected that the Inconstant will receive the crew of the Warrior, and will be ordered to do a spell of Coast-guard duty at Portland. | ||
| Fr 5 July 1878 | The following vessels are under orders to return home from their respective stations, to be paid off and put out of commission:—The Bullfinch, 3, double-screw gun vessel, Commander Rodney M. Lloyd, from North America and West Indies. This vessel is ordered to Devonport; she was commissioned at Sheerness on the 13th of July, 1874. The Curlew, 3, double-screw gun vessel, Commander William M’C. Castle, ordered to Spithead from China. This vessel was re-commissioned at Hongkong on the 1st of December, 1874. The Fantome, 4, screw composite sloop, Commander Thomas M. Maquay, from the Pacific, ordered to Devonport, at which port she was commissioned on the 5th of December. 1873. The Flying Fish, 4, composite steam sloop, Commander Herbert M. Crohan, ordered to Spithead from the Mediterranean; this vessel was commissioned at Chatham on the 18th of June, 1874. The Foam, 4, screw composite gun boat, Lieutenant Commanding Richard W. Hope, ordered to Spithead from the south-east coast of America. This vessel was commissioned at Sheerness on the 20th of May, 1874. The Shah, 26, iron steam frigate, cased with wood, Capt. Frederick G.D. Bedford, flagship of Rear-Admiral Algernon F.R. de Horsey, in the Pacific. This vessel is ordered to return to Portsmouth, where she was commissioned on the 14th of August, 1876. She is to be replaced by the Triumph. The Thistle, 4, double-screw composite gun-vessel, Commander Robert S. Hunt, from China, ordered to Spithead. This vessel was re-commissioned at Hongkong on the 1st of December, 1874, when a fresh crew was sent out from England. | ||
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