High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Zealous was one of the three ships (the others being HMS Royal Alfred and HMS Repulse) forming the second group of wooden second-rate warships selected in 1860 for conversion to broadside ironclads in response to the perceived threat to Britain offered by the increase in French warship building. She was given a straight stem and a rounded stern, but her hull was otherwise unmodified from her original form; it had been found that lengthening the hull, as was done in the earlier Prince Consort class, led to longitudinal weakness.

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