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HMS Audacious (1869)
HMS ''Audacious'' was the lead ship of the s built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They were designed as second-class ironclads suitable for use on foreign stations and the ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was decommissioned in 1894 and hulked in 1902 for use as a training ship. The ship was towed to Scapa Flow after the beginning of the First World War to be used as a receiving ship and then to Rosyth after the war ended. ''Audacious'' was sold for scrap in 1929.
==Design and description==
The ''Audacious''-class ironclads were laid out as central battery ironclads with the armament concentrated amidships. They were the first British ironclads to have a two-deck battery with the upper deck guns sponsoned out over the sides of the hull. The ships were fitted with a short, plough-shaped ram and their crew numbered 450 officers and men.〔Parkes, pp. 151–52〕
HMS ''Audacious'' was long between perpendiculars. She had a beam of and a draught of .〔Ballard, p. 241〕 The ship was first British ironclad to be completed below her designed displacement; this meant that she was top heavy and required of cement ballast to raise her metacentric height. ''Audacious'', and her sisters, were the steadiest gun platforms among the large British ironclads of their era.〔Ballard, p. 174〕 ''Audacious'' was given an experimental zinc sheath for her hull in an attempt to reduce biofouling that proved unsuccessful.〔Brown, p. 39〕
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