HMS Resistance (1861)

Resistance in 1861, by Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton
History
United Kingdom
Ordered	14 December 1859
Builder	Westwood, Baillie, Poplar, London
Laid down	21 December 1859
Launched	11 April 1861
Completed	5 October 1862
Commissioned	July 1862
Decommissioned	1880
Nickname(s)	Old Rammo
Fate	Sold for scrap, 11 November 1898
General characteristics
Class and type	Defence-class armoured frigate
Displacement	6,070 long tons (6,170 t)
Length	280 ft (85.3 m)
Beam	54 ft 2 in (16.5 m)
Draught	26 ft 2 in (8 m)
Installed power	4 boilers 2,328 ihp (1,736 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft, 1 trunk steam engine
Sail plan	Ship rig
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range	1,670 nmi (3,090 km; 1,920 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	460
Armament	2 × 32 pdr smoothbore guns 8 × 7 in (178 mm) RBLs 10 × 68 pdr smoothbore guns From 1868 : 14 × 7 in rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns 2 × 8 in (203 mm) RMLs
Armour	Belt: 4.5 in (114 mm) Bulkheads: 4.5 in (114 mm)

HMS Resistance was the second of two Defence-class ironclads^{[Note 1]} built for the Royal Navy in the 1860s. She was the first capital ship in the Royal Navy to be fitted with a ram and was given the nickname of Old Rammo.^[1] Resistance was initially assigned to the Channel Fleet upon commissioning, but was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1864, the first ironclad to be assigned to that fleet. She was rearmed in 1867 and became a guardship when recommissioned in 1869. The ship was reassigned to the Channel Fleet in 1873 before reverting to her former duties in 1877. Resistance was decommissioned in 1880 and was used for gunnery and torpedo trials beginning in 1885. The ship was sold for scrap in 1898 and foundered in 1899 en route to the breaker's yard. She was salvaged and later scrapped.

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