HMS BOADICEA
by Kevin Patience

Builders Portsmouth Dockyard, Portsmouth, England. 1876
Length 280 feet
Beam  45 feet
Displacement  3913 tons
Machinery  Single horizontal compound steam engine, 5,130 hp
Speed      14 knots
Armament 14 x 7 inch muzzle loading guns
2 x 64 pounder breech loading guns
Complement 420
Disposal  Sold for scrap 1905
   

  

 

Crew  Casualties

T. Stubbs Blacksmith 7 September 1888
Edward Cotter  (aged 32) Chief Yeoman of Signals 11 September 1888
W. Mathews Gunners Mate 31 May 1889
Andrew Buchanan Able Seaman 7 January 1890

 

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