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HMS Minotaur (1863)
HMS ''Minotaur'' was the lead ship of the armoured frigates built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. They were the longest single-screw warships ever built.〔 ''Minotaur'' took nearly four years between her launching and commissioning because she was used for evaluations of her armament and different sailing rigs. The ship spent the bulk of her active career as flagship of the Channel Fleet, including during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Fleet Review in 1887. She became a training ship in 1893 and was then hulked in 1905 when she became part of the training school at Harwich. ''Minotaur'' was renamed several times before being sold for scrap in 1922 and broken up the following year.
==Design and description==
The ''Minotaur''-class armoured frigates〔Ironclad is the all-encompassing term for armoured warships of this period. Armoured frigates were basically designed for the same role as traditional wooden frigates, but this later changed as the size and expense of these ships forced them to be used in the line of battle.〕 were essentially enlarged versions of the ironclad with heavier armament, armour, and more powerful engines. They retained the broadside ironclad layout of their predecessor, but their sides were fully armoured to protect the 50 guns they were designed to carry. Their plough-shaped ram was also more prominent than that of ''Achilles''.〔Parkes, pp. 60–61〕
The ''Minotaur''-class ships were long between perpendiculars and long overall. They had a beam of and a draft of .〔Silverstone, p. 157〕 The ships displaced .〔Ballard, p. 241〕 The hull was subdivided by 15 watertight transverse bulkheads and had a double bottom underneath the engine and boiler rooms.〔Parkes, p. 60〕
''Minotaur'' was considered "an excellent sea-boat and a steady gun platform, but unhandy under steam and practically unmanageable under sail"〔Ballard, p. 24〕 as built. Steam-powered steering improved her maneouvring qualities significantly when it was installed in 1875 and she was judged "one of our very best manoeuvrers we have in the Navy"〔 by Vice Admiral Philip Colomb in 1890. The ship's steadiness was partially a result of her metacentric height of .〔
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