HNLMS Stier

Sister ship Schorpioen in Den Helder, Netherlands
History
Netherlands
Name:	Stier
Namesake:	Bull
Builder:	John Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, England
Launched:	5 April 1868
Recommissioned:	1 April 1909
Decommissioned:	1982
In service:	1868
Out of service:	1906
Struck:	1908
Fate:	Scrapped, 1930
General characteristics (as completed)
Class & type:	Schorpioen-class monitor
Displacement:	2,087 metric tons (2,054 long tons)
Length:	195.7 ft (59.65 m) (p/p)
Beam:	39 ft (11.9 m)
Draught:	16 ft 9 in (5.1 m)
Installed power:	2,225 ihp (1,659 kW) 4 boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 2 steam engines
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range:	1,030 nmi (1,910 km; 1,190 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	136
Armament:	2 × 1 − Armstrong 9-inch (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles
Armour:	Belt: 3–6 in (76–152 mm) Gun turrets: 8–11 in (203–279 mm) Deck: .75–1 in (19–25 mm) Conning tower: 5.7 in (144 mm)

HNLMS Stier was a Schorpioen-class monitor built in England for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1860s.

Notes

References

• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
• "Dutch Ironclad Rams". Warship International (Toledo, OH: Naval Records Club) IX (3): 302–04. 1972.
• Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.