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Thursday, 11 April 2024

British school for gunnery HMS (ex-Queen Charlotte 1805-1859 ) Excellent 1859-1892

Building as a 1-104 guns sailing first rate ship of the line ordered on 9 July 1801, laid down by Deptford Dockyard in October 1805, launched on 17 July 1810, commissioned in January 1813, converted into a training ship and renamed Excellent in 1859 and sold to be broken up on 12 January 1892.

Source

Francis Elgar. The Royal Navy 1872-1880 in a series of illustrations. Lithographed in colours. From original drawings by W.F. Mitchell, esquire. Portsmouth, December 1880. 

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