An item referred to the magazine Le Yacht reporting that the 9.800 ton Achilles with a speed of 14 miles was to be converted into a floating depot for torpedoes.(1) On that moment she was already 12 years decommissioned.
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1. A broadside ironclad laid down at the Chatham dockyard on 1 August 1861, recommissioned in April 1901 as the depot ship Hibernia, renamed in 1904 Egmont and after 1914 as Egremont and Pembroke and in 1925 finally sold to be broken up.
Note
1. A broadside ironclad laid down at the Chatham dockyard on 1 August 1861, recommissioned in April 1901 as the depot ship Hibernia, renamed in 1904 Egmont and after 1914 as Egremont and Pembroke and in 1925 finally sold to be broken up.
