'A black vicious ugly customer as ever I saw, whale-like in size, and with as terrible a row of incisor teeth as ever closed on a French frigate' - Charles Dickens

HMS Warrior Launched: Blackwall, London 29th Dec. 1860. The armored steam frigate was built in response to France's La Gloire, the world's first armored warship.







What a beauty. Restored and on display in Portsmouth.