HMS Liverpool (1860)
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HMS Liverpool was a fourth-rate screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Devonport Dockyard on 30 October 1860, the year the famous Warrior was launched.
During her first commission, she served in the North America and West Indies Stations and later the Channel Squadron, until she was placed in "Steam Reserve" at Devonport in August 1867.
She was re-commissioned, like previous ships of the same name on the 8 May 1869 as flagship of a detached squadron known as the Special Flying Squadron. The squadron's mission was an early form of "flag waving" to display British naval power and prowess across the world. This squadron, known as the "flying squadron" consisted of HM ships Barrosa, Endymion, Liffey, Liverpool, Phoebe and Scylla. The squadron left Portsmouth on 18 July 1869 and circumnavigated the globe before returning home in November 1870, having sailed 53,000 miles. Liverpool was paid off into reserve in December of the year she returned. She was subsequently declared obsolete in 1872 and was sold for breaking up in 1875.
See HMS Liverpool for other ships of this name.
[edit] General characteristics
- Displacement: 1,195 ton
- Propulsion: 600 hp (450 kW) engines.
- Length: 235 ft (72 m)
- Armament: eight 64-pounder (29 kg) guns, twenty-six 8-inch (203 mm) guns, four 7-inch (178 mm) guns
