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Hector-class ironclad
The ''Hector''-class ironclads were a pair of armoured frigates built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the 1860s. was completed in 1864 and assigned to the Channel Fleet until she began a refit in 1867. 's builder went bankrupt and delayed her launching by a year. The ship then had to wait almost another five years to receive her guns and be commissioned. Both ships were assigned to the Reserve Fleet from 1868 until they were paid off in 1885–86. They were mobilized during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, but saw no action. They were hulked in the late 1890s and assigned to shore establishments. ''Hector'' was scrapped in 1905, but ''Valiant'' was converted into a floating oil tank in 1926 until she was sold for scrap in 1956.
==Design and description==
The ''Hector''-class ironclads, like their immediate predecessors, the , were designed as smaller and cheaper versions of the armoured frigates. They were modified versions of the ''Defence'' class with additional armour and more powerful engines.〔Parkes, pp. 30–31〕
The ships were long between perpendiculars, had a beam of and a draft of .〔Ballard, p. 241〕 They were overweight and displaced .〔 The hull was subdivided by watertight transverse bulkheads into 92 compartments and had a double bottom underneath the engine and boiler rooms.〔Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 9〕 The ships were designed with a very low centre of gravity and had a metacentric height of . While handy in manoeuvring they rolled quite badly. The ships had a crew of 530 officers and enlisted men.〔
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