Dilandu wrote:Silverwall wrote:Getting back to the original tone of the post one of the little remembered features of the original Warrior was how much thought was given to the liveability of the ship. It had well laid out spaces and even a dedicated laundry with actual washing machines (Hand powered) and a generally high quality of internal fittings. Many of these features did not become standard in naval design until after 1900.
In any endurance situation Warriors crew would perform notably better than an opponents because of this attention to morale and comfort. She was also designed explicitly for power projection and was expected to land a naval brigade of up to ~250 marines and sailors to project power inland and had a large armoury of muskets and sabres to support this.
In other therms - Royal Navy have troubles with understanding for what reason they need ironclads, and build the ship that was more effective in frigate duties than in ship-of-the-line.
Given that the original designation was "Ironclad Frigate" this is probably not very suprising. Only once in service and realising how much it outclassed older ships of the line did they realise they had invented somthing new. One of the downsides of being somthing new.