3-043-730 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The fleet of ironclads at Portland Harbour, 1872. Engraving from a photograph by Edgar Cox. Sailors manning the yards of Royal Navy warships. 'The combined naval squadrons lying at Portland, under the command of Rear-Admiral Hornby, consisted of the following ships: The Minotaur; the Agincourt; the Achilles; the Sultan; the Hector; the Hercules; the Penelope; the Audacious; the Vanguard; the Valiant; the Bellerophon; the Black Prince; the Resistance; the Northumberland; the Favourite; the Boscawen; the Lively, and five training-brigs. The fifteen large vessels are all broadside ironclads, and their nominal steam value ranges from the Minotaur's engines of 1350 to the Favourite's of 400 horse-power. The fleet lay in three columns, each of five ships, inside the breakwater. They carried flags at all their mastheads and at their sterns'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.