. . "68.2752"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "2"^^ . "--06-17"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1865-10-10"^^ . "1863-07-04"^^ . "*Belt: \n*Gun turrets:"@en . . . . . "12.8016"^^ . . . . . "Barque-rigged"@en . . . . . . . . "HMS Scorpion (1863)"@en . . . "HMS Scorpion was an ironclad turret ship built by John Laird Sons & Company, at Birkenhead, England. She was one of two sister ships secretly ordered from the Laird shipyard in 1862 by the Confederate States of America. Her true ownership was concealed by the fiction that she was being built as the Egyptian warship El Tousson. She was to have been named CSS North Carolina upon delivery to the Confederacy. Her sister was built under the false name El Monassir and was to have been renamed CSS Mississippi. In October 1863, a few months after their launch and before they could be completed, the UK Government seized the two ironclads. In 1864 the Admiralty bought them and commissioned them into the Royal Navy: El Tousson as HMS Scorpion and El Monassir as HMS Wivern. Scorpion had a long Royal Navy career, until she was lost in the North Atlantic in 1903."@en . . . . . "United Kingdom"@en . . "9365"^^ . . "*Refloated 1902; sold for scrap" . . . . . "60521"^^ . . . . "19.446"^^ . . . . . . . "*Sunk as target 1901" . . . . "153"^^ . . . . . . . . "1865-10-10"^^ . . . . . . "2"^^ . . "1862"^^ . "HMS Scorpion"@en . . . "*\n*4 boilers"@en . . . . "at"@en . "1096881081"^^ . . . . . "HMS Scorpion was an ironclad turret ship built by John Laird Sons & Company, at Birkenhead, England. She was one of two sister ships secretly ordered from the Laird shipyard in 1862 by the Confederate States of America. In 1864 the Admiralty bought them and commissioned them into the Royal Navy: El Tousson as HMS Scorpion and El Monassir as HMS Wivern. Scorpion had a long Royal Navy career, until she was lost in the North Atlantic in 1903."@en . . . . . . . "sister ship:"@en . . . "1863-07-04"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . "*Foundered 17 June 1903" . . . . "HMS Scorpion"@en . . . . . "68275.2"^^ . . . "April 1862"@en . .