Service History
HMS Royal Oak was commissioned at Chatham and initially served with the Channel Fleet. She was posted from there to the Mediterranean, becoming only the second ironclad there, after HMS Resistance. She paid off for re-arming in 1867, and then returned to the Channel for six months. She was accidentally rammed by HMS Warrior in thick weather in the winter of 1867, losing boats, chains, shrouds and back stays. In 1869 she returned to the Mediterranean, and was present at the opening of the Suez Canal. She grounded on an uncharted sandbank outside Port Said, and was towed free by HMS Lord Warden, without sustaining any damage. She paid off for refit at Portsmouth in 1871, but economic considerations prevented this from taking place, and after lying idle for fourteen years she was sold on 30 September 1885.
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