HMS Warrior was the name ship of a class of two 40-gun steam-powered
armoured frigates built for the Royal Navy in 1859–61. The sister
ships Warrior and HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-
hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in
1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled
Gloire. After a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863, Warrior had an
active career with the Channel Squadron. The frigate became obsolescent
following the 1871 launching of the mastless and more capable HMS
Devastation, was placed in reserve in 1875, and was paid off in 1883.
After serving as a storeship and depot ship, Warrior was assigned in
1904 to the Royal Navy's torpedo training school. The frigate was
converted into an oil jetty in 1927 and was donated by the Navy to the
Maritime Trust for restoration in 1979. The restoration process took
eight years, during which many of the ship's features and fittings were
either restored or recreated. When this was finished Warrior returned to
Portsmouth as a museum ship. Listed as part of the National Historic
Fleet, the ship has been based in Portsmouth since 1987.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warrior_(1860)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1170:
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain in his own
cathedral by four knights of Henry II of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket>
1890:
The United States Army killed over 150 members of the Great
Sioux Nation at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre>
1930:
Muhammad Iqbal introduced the two-nation theory outlining a
vision for the creation of an independent state for Muslim-majority
provinces in northwestern British India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-nation_theory>
1937:
The Constitution of Ireland, the founding legal document of the
state known today as the Republic of Ireland, came into force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Ireland>
1997:
In order to prevent the spread of the H5N1 flu virus, the Hong
Kong government slaughtered 1.3 million chickens.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_H5N1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
embrittlement:
The process of being embrittled; loss of flexibility or elasticity of a
material.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embrittlement>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it
scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of
many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom
you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order; the firmest
foundations for the development of individual character; and the best
provision for the happiness of the nation at large.
--William Ewart Gladstone
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone>