HNLMS Stier was a monitor built in England for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1860s.
The Schorpioen-class ships were designed to the same specification, but varied somewhat in details. The dimensions here are for, with her British-built sister ship, Stier, being marginally smaller. They were 205feet long overall, had a beam of 38feet and a draft of 16feet. They displaced 2069- and was fitted with a ram bow. Their crew consisted of 110–136 officers and enlisted men.[1]
Stier was powered by a pair of horizontal trunk steam engines, each driving a propeller shaft using steam from four square boilers. The engines produced 2225ihp2250ihp and gave the ship a speed of 12kn.[1] The Schorpioen-class ships carried a maximum of 200LT of coal that gave them a range of 1030nmi at a speed of .[2] They were also equipped with two pole masts.[3]
The Schorpioens were armed with a pair of Armstrong 9inches rifled, muzzle-loading guns mounted in the gun turret. The ships had a complete waterline belt of wrought iron that ranged in thickness from 6inches amidships to 3inches at the ends of the ships. The gun turret was protected by 8inches inches of armor and the armor thickness increased to 11inches around the gun ports. The base of the turret was also protected by 8 inches of armor and the walls of the conning tower were 144mm thick. The deck armor ranged in thickness from 0.75to.[2]