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==Captains==
==Captains==
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Revision as of 14:35, 11 March 2016

H.M.S. Orion (1879)
Builder: Samuda, Poplar[1]
Purchased: 13 Feb, 1878[2]
Launched: 23 Jan, 1879[3]
Completed: 3 Jul, 1882[4]
Sold: 1913[5]

H.M.S. Orion was laid down as Boordhi-Zaffer for the Turkish Navy but was purchased for use in the Royal Navy as one of two Belleisle Class armoured rams.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 18.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 18.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 18.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 18.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 18.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1890). p. 235.
  7. Bennett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 8.
  8. Bennett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 8.

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