Name | Grampian (launched as Gibraltar, 1860) | Explanation | |
Type | Second rate | Type | Two-decker |
Launched | 16 August 1860 | ||
Hull | Wooden | Length | 252 feet |
Propulsion | Screw | Men | 930 |
Builders measure | 3716 tons | ||
Displacement | 5724 tons | ||
Guns | 101 | ||
Fate | 1899 | Last in commission | 1867 |
Class | Class (as screw) | Duncan | |
Ships book | ADM 135/206 | ||
Career | |||
Date | Event | ||
16 August 1860 | Launched at Devonport Dockyard | ||
8 September 1863 - December 1864 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain James Charles Prevost, Mediterranean | ||
26 November 1864 - 12 January 1867 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Robert Coote, Mediterranean | ||
1872 | Lent as training ship for boys in Belfast (Belfast Training Ship Committee) | ||
1889 | Renamed Grampian | ||
1899 | Sold to Castle for breaking up at Charlton | ||
Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
Date | Extract | ||
Th 13 September 1860 | The following ships and gunboats in the first-class steam reserve could be got ready for the pendant at a short notice:- The Windsor Castle, 100; the Revenge, 91; the Orlando, 60; the Forth, 12; the Seahorse, 12; the Merlin, 6; and the Hyena, the Gleaner, the Nightingale, the Steady, the Spider, the Delight, the Goldfinch, the Charon, and the Lark. The following, in Keyham steam yard, are in a forward state:- The Howe, 121; the Gibraltar, 101; the Brunswick, 80; the Phoebe, 51; the Narcissus, 51; the Jason, 21; and the Desperate, 8. | ||
We 15 November 1871 | The Hotspur, 3, double screw iron armour-plated, ram, was commissioned at Devonport yesterday by Capt. Lord John Hay, C.B. The ship will move into Plymouth Sound on Thursday, and will be inspected by the Commander-in-Chief on Friday, and will probably leave on Saturday for an experimental cruise. The Gibraltar, screw ship, is coming into the north basin at Keyham to have her engines and boilers taken out, and to be fitted as a training ship for boys at Belfast. |