HMS Nelson (1876)

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HMS Nelson in Hobart in 1884
Career
Name:	HMS Nelson
Builder:	John Elder & Co.
Laid down:	November 2, 1874
Launched:	November 4, 1876
Commissioned:	1881
Reclassified:	Training ship, 1902
Fate:	Sold for breaking up July 12, 1910
General characteristics
Displacement:	7,473 tons
Length:	280 ft (85 m) pp
Beam:	60 ft (18 m)
Draught:	24 ft 10 in (7.6 m)
Propulsion:	2 Shaft Elder steam engine
Speed:	14 kts
Complement:	560
Armament:	4 x 10 in Muzzle Loading Rifles 8 x 9 in Muzzle Loading Rifles 6 x 20 pdr guns (removed 1889) 4 x 4..7in QF (added 1889) 6 x 6pdr QF (added 1889) 14 x 3pdr(added 1889)
Armour:	Belt 6in - 9in
Plan & section of HMS Nelson

HMS Nelson was a Nelson class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, built by John Elder & Company, Govan, Scotland and launched in 1876, commissioned in 1881, and sold for scrapping in 1910. She sailed for the Australia Station after commissioning, and served there until 1889. She then commenced a two year refit.

From 1891 until 1894 she was a guardship at Portsmouth, before being placed in reserve. She was converted to a training ship for stokers in 1902 and broken up in Holland after being sold in 1910.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. 
• Roger Chesneau and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ed., Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), ISBN 0-85177-133-5
• Naval Historical Society of Australia, HMS Nelson, Armour Belted Cruiser 1882. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.

[edit] External links

• Pictures of HMS Nelson
• Naval Historical Society of Australia
• Shipping Times: Clydebuilt Database

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