Maritime History

HMS Triumph (1870)

HMS Triumph was a central-battery Swiftsure-class ironclad built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the 1870s. The ship was completed in 1873 and was briefly assigned to the Channel Fleet before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet where she spent most of the rest of the decade. Together with her sister Swiftsure, she had a minor role in returning a captured pair of rebel ships during the Spanish Cantonal Rebellion in 1873 to the central government. Triumph was the first of the sisters to serve as the Pacific Station flagship beginning in 1878 and they rotated the assignment between them at roughly three-year intervals. In between those times, they were usually refitted and spent several years in reserve. When the Pacific Fleet assignments ended for Triumph in 1888, she spent a few years in reserve before serving as a guardship in Ireland, flagship of the local reserve forces. Triumph was assigned to serve as a depot ship in 1901 and was renamed Tenedos in 1904. She was converted into a mechanics training ship that same year and was renamed Indus IV in 1912. Two years later the ship was converted into a storeship and was renamed Algiers in 1915. The old ironclad was sold for scrap in 1921.

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• ▸Coastal Picket Force
• ▸Corruption in Azerbaijan
• ▸Edward Smith (sea captain)

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