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| Name | Belleisle (1876) | Explanation | |
| Type | Central battery ironclad | ||
| Launched | 12 February 1876 | ||
| Hull | Iron | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
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| Displacement | 4870 tons | ||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1904 | ||
| Class | Belleisle | ||
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| Note | Laid down as Turkish Peyk-i-Sheref. Purchased on stocks. 1900 target. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 1 April 1878 - 9 October 1878 | Commanded (from commissioning at Chatham) by Captain Charles John Rowley, Coast Guard, Kingstown (including the Particular Service fleet during the Russian war scare) | ||
| 1 January 1879 - 18 April 1880 | Commanded by Captain Henry Bouchier Phillimore, Coast Guard, Kingstown | ||
| 14 April 1880 - 8 March 1881 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Barnardiston, Coast Guard, Kingstown | ||
| 14 November 1881 - 15 July 1883 | Commanded by Captain Francis Mowbray Prattent, Coast Guard, Kingstown | ||
| 25 July 1883 - 27 March 1885 | Commanded by Captain Loftus Francis Jones, Coast Guard, Kingstown | ||
| 28 March 1885 - 27 March 1888 | Commanded by Captain Guy Ochterlony Twiss, Coast Guard, Kingstown | ||
| 28 March 1888 - 6 April 1891 | Commanded by Captain Hon Richard Hare, Coast Guard, Kingstown (including summer cruise 2 July - 21 August 1888 and manoeuvres 16 July - 2 September 1889 and 22 July 1890 - 22 August 1890) | ||
| 6 April 1891 - 30 April 1893 | Commanded by Captain Frederick Ross Boardman, Coast Guard, Kingstown | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 8 August 1878 | The following Information has been officially notified:— "The inspection of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen on Tuesday, the 13th inst., will take place about 4 p.m., at Spithead. There will be no general issue of tickets as only a very limited number of vessels can be set apart for the conveyance of official visitors. Naval officers on half-pay and military officers of the Portsmouth garrison will be accommodated on board Her Majesty's ships Valorous and Dasher respectively, and should apply at the Commander-in-Chief's office at Portsmouth Dockyard." The special service fleet of masted ironclad turret ships and gunboats, under the command of Admiral Sir Cooper Key and Rear-Admiral Boys, numbering 19 sail all told, arrived yesterday afternoon at Spithead, where they will be reviewed on Tuesday next by the Queen. After leaving Portland Admiral Boys hoisted his flag on board the Thunderer and took command of the turret ships. The fleet forming into columns of sub-divisions, line abreast, each column of masted ships having a column of monitors on its starboard beam. In this order the fleet proceeded up Channel at a speed of five knots. On rounding Culver Cliff previous to entering the Solent the formation was altered to columns of division line ahead, the weather line being headed by the Hercules, flagship of Admiral Key, followed by the Valiant, Hector, Lord Warden, Warrior, Penelope, Resistance, and Boadicea. The starboard line, consisting of the turret-ships, was formed as follows:— Thunderer (bearing the flagship of the Rear-Admiral), Belleisle, Gorgon, Hydra, Hecate, Glatton, Cyclops, and Prince Albert, the rear being composed of the gunboats Tay, Tees, and Blazer. In this order the ships steamed towards Gilkicker Point, when the helms of both lines were put hard over, the frigates turning outwards to the Isle of Wight and the monitors outwards to Portsmouth and Southsea, and steamed back to the Noman and anchored in the same relative positions in line in readiness for the review. The Valorous, paddle steamer. Has been appropriated for the accommodation of naval half-pay officers. | ||
| Fr 16 August 1878 | The Queen received the Admirals and Captains assembled at Spithead at Osborne yesterday afternoon. Admiral Fanshawe, C.B., Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, who arrived with the officers in Her Majesty's ship Lively, presented Admiral Sir A. Cooper Key, K.C.B., to Her Majesty. Sir A, Cooper Key then presented Rear-Admiral Boys and the following officers to Her Majesty:— Captains.— E.H. Howard, Her Majesty’s chip Hecate (Aide-de-Camp to the Queen); J.C. Wilson, Her Majesty's ship Thunderer (Aide-de-Camp to the Queen); A.T. Thrupp, Her Majesty's ship Resistance; W.C. Chapman, Her Majesty's ship Valiant; R.G. Douglas, Her Majesty's ship Warrior; C.H. Simpson, Her Majesty's ship Hector; W.S. Brown, Her Majesty's ship Penelope; C.J. Rowley, Her Majesty's ship Belleisle; the Hon. E.R. Fremantle, C.B., C.M.G., Her Majesty's ship Lord Warden; M. Singer, Her Majesty's ship Glatton; J. D'Arcy, Her Majesty's ship Euryalus; L.F. Jones, Her Majesty's ship Prince Albert; E. Kelly, Her Majesty's ship Cyclops; W.H. Maxwell, Her Majesty's ship Emerald; Sir Lambton Loraine, Her Majesty's ship Gorgon; J.A. Fisher, Her Majesty's ship Hercules; and A.H. Markham, Her Majesty's ship Hydra. The officers who were presented to Her Majesty in the Drawing-room, then retired. | ||
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