HNLMS Stier
Sister ship Schorpioen in Den Helder, Netherlands | |
History | |
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Name: | Stier |
Namesake: | Bull |
Builder: | John Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, England |
Launched: | 5 April 1868 |
Recommissioned: | 1 April 1909 |
Decommissioned: | 1982 |
In service: | 1868 |
Out of service: | 1906 |
Struck: | 1908 |
Fate: | Scrapped, 1930 |
General characteristics (as completed) | |
Class and type: | Schorpioen-class monitor |
Displacement: | 2,087 metric tons (2,054 long tons) |
Length: | 195.7 ft (59.65 m) (p/p) |
Beam: | 39 ft (11.9 m) |
Draught: | 16 ft 9 in (5.1 m) |
Installed power: | |
Propulsion: | 2 shafts, 2 steam engines |
Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range: | 1,030 nmi (1,910 km; 1,190 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement: | 136 |
Armament: | 2 × 1 − Armstrong 9-inch (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles |
Armour: |
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HNLMS Stier was a Schorpioen-class monitor built in England for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1860s.
Notes
References
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- "Dutch Ironclad Rams". Warship International. Toledo, OH: Naval Records Club. IX (3): 302–04. 1972.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
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