Editing Warrior-class ironclad (section)

==Service==
HMS ''Warrior'' joined the Channel Fleet in July 1862 and was placed [[in ordinary]] from 1864 to 1867, during which time she was refitted. The ship rejoined the Channel Fleet in 1867 and towed a [[Floating drydock#Floating|floating drydock]] to [[Bermuda]] in 1869 with her sister ''Black Prince''.<ref name=p24/> ''Warrior'' was placed in ordinary again from 1872 to 1875 and was modified with a [[poop deck]]. She was recommissioned into the 1st Class Reserve in 1875 and made periodic training cruises until 1883.<ref name=p24>Parkes, p. 24</ref> The ship was formally reclassified as an armoured frigate in 1884,<ref>Silverstone, p. 276</ref> but was disarmed and mastless. ''Warrior'' was [[hulk (ship type)|hulked]] as a depot ship in [[Portsmouth]] Harbor in 1902 and renamed ''Vernon III'' in 1904 when she became part of {{HMS|Vernon|shore establishment|6}}, the Royal Navy's Torpedo School. The ship regained her original name in 1923 and was converted once more into an oil pipeline pier in 1927. ''Warrior'' was towed to [[Pembroke Dock]] in 1929 and was renamed ''C77'' in 1942 to release her name for the new aircraft carrier {{HMS|Warrior|R31|6}}. In 1979 ''C77'' was moved to [[Hartlepool]] and was restored as HMS ''Warrior (1860)'' as the [[Northwood Headquarters|Fleet Headquarters]] in [[Northwood, London]] had assumed the name of HMS ''Warrior'' in the early 1960s. The ironclad can now be seen near {{HMS|Victory||6}} at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.<ref>Lambert, pp. 42–44</ref>

''Black Prince'' [[Capsizing|capsized]] while in dock at [[Greenock]], damaging her masts. She arrived in [[Spithead]] in November 1861 with only [[jury-rig]]ged fore and mizzenmasts.<ref name=p24/> The ship was assigned to the Channel Fleet upon her completion and in 1867–68 she was rearmed and then assigned to the 1st Class Reserve. She was refitted in 1874 and given a poop deck, and rejoined the Channel Fleet in 1875 as the [[flagship]] of [[Rear Admiral]] Sir [[Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet|John Dalrymple-Hay]], second in command of the fleet. ''Black Prince'' was placed in reserve in 1878 in Devonport until she was converted to a training ship in 1896 in [[Queenstown, Ireland]] and renamed ''Emerald'' in 1903. The ship was hulked and renamed ''Impregnable III'' in 1910 when she was assigned to the training school {{HMS|Impregnable|training establishment 1862|6}} before she was sold for scrap on 21 March 1923.<ref>Ballard, pp. 58–59</ref>