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| rdfs:comment | - The Hector-class ironclads, like their immediate predecessors, the Defence-class, were designed as smaller and cheaper versions of the Warrior-class armoured frigates. They were modified versions of the Defence-class ships with additional armour and more powerful engines.
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| Ship caption | - Line drawing from Brassey's Naval Annual 1888
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| abstract | - The Hector-class ironclads, like their immediate predecessors, the Defence-class, were designed as smaller and cheaper versions of the Warrior-class armoured frigates. They were modified versions of the Defence-class ships with additional armour and more powerful engines. HMS Hector was long between perpendiculars. She had a beam of and a draft of . The ship was overweight and displaced . The hull was subdivided by watertight transverse bulkheads into 92 compartments and had a double bottom underneath the engine and boiler rooms. The ships were designed with a very low centre of gravity and had a metacentric height of . While handy in manoeuvring they rolled quite badly.
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