HMS Warrior was the first iron-hulled, armour-plated
warship, built for the
Royal Navy in response to the first
ironclad warship, the French
La Gloire . When completed in October 1861, Warrior was the largest, fastest, most heavily-armed and most heavily-armoured warship in the world. Her construction sparked off the intense competition between guns and armour that was to last for the next 85 years. This race caused her to quickly become obsolete, and she was withdrawn as a fighting unit in May of 1883. She is now a museum ship, open to the public in
Portsmouth,
England.
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