2-494-688 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

HMS 'Hero', Royal Navy 2nd class battleship, c1890-c1893. The second and final battleship of the 'Conqueror' class, HMS 'Hero' entered service in 1888. By the time she was commissioned her main armament, a ram, was obsolete and she served as a tender to the gunnery school HMS 'Excellent' at Portsmouth. She was sunk as a target ship in 1908. A print from Her Majesty's Navy Including its Deeds and Battles, by Lieut Chas Rathbone Low, Volume II, JS Virtue & Co, London, 1890-1893.