H.M.S. Sans Pareil Steel 1st Class Battleship. Built at The Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, and completed for sea in 1889. Length 340ft.Displacement 10, 470 tons. I.H.P. 14, 000. Speed 17.2 knots. Armament 2 111 ton guns, 1 29 ton gun, 12 6in Q F Guns. 12 6pr. Q.F. Guns, 9 3pr.Q.F. Guns. The Sans Pareil is the sister ship to the ill-fated Victoria lost in collision off the Syrian Coast<br>
Vignette.; Signed by artist in plate.
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Tomkin, W S (artist); Waterlow and Sons Ltd (engravers)</div>
1889<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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