Ships of the Line

[Brian James]

91 gun Ship of the Line HMS Hannibal pictured at Deptford Dockyard in 1853,built by Charles Willcox, Master Shipwright, and launched on January 31st 1854. She served in the Crimean War, commanded by John Charles Dalrymple Hay.
She was used to transport Garibaldi's soldiers in Italy. The ship arrived in Naples in July 1860. In November a smallpox epidemic broke out, and in ten days 90 men from this ship and at least one other had caught the disease. Seven of those who died were buried in the English Cemetery, Naples.
She was hulked in 1874 and finally broken up in 1904, after 50 years in service.

[jbryce1437]

Photo of Hannibal in Castles Yard, Charlton for scrapping c1904, courtesy of Wiki.

Jim

[Brian James]

Screw Sloop-of-War HMS Dolphin pictured in her role as a seagoing Training Brig at Portsmouth c1902.She served as a Submarine Depot Ship in World War I. She foundered in 1925 but was beached and used as a School Ship. She was broken up in 1977.

[jbryce1437]

Screw Sloop-of-War HMS Dolphin pictured in her role as a seagoing Training Brig at Portsmouth c1902.She served as a Submarine Depot Ship in World War I. She foundered in 1925 but was beached and used as a School Ship. She was broken up in 1977.

Lovely photo Brian, this is Dolphin without her sails rigged.


Jim

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[Brian James]

Schematic of RN first and third rate warships, 1728.

[Brian James]

Boy Seamen pictured on Training Ship HMS Wellesley c1880.Wellesley was ordered as a Black Prince Class ship of the line, plans meant for her construction were lost in December 1812 when USS Constitution captured HMS Java.She was therefore built to the lines of HMS Cornwallis, a Vengeur Class ship of the line which had just been launched at Bombay. The East India Company built her of teak, at a cost of £55,147, for the RN and launched her on February 24th 1815 at Bombay Dockyard.In 1854 Wellesley was a Guard Ship at Chatham. That same year she became a Harbour Flagship and Receiving Ship at Chatham.
In 1868 the Admiralty loaned her to the London School Ship Society, which refitted her as a Reformatory School. She was renamed Cornwall and was moored off Purfleet in April. Later, Cornwall, renamed Wellesley, was moved to the Tyne and served as The Tyne Industrial Training Ship of Wellesley Nautical School. In 1928, due to industrial development at that location, she was moved to Denton, below Gravesend.
On September 24th 1940 a German air-raid severely damaged Wellesley and she subsequently sank.She was raised in 1948 and beached at Tilbury, where she was broken up. Some of her timbers found a home in the rebuilding of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, while her figurehead now resides just inside the main gates of Chatham Dockyard.

[timlewin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cornwallis_(1813)

I remember as a 10/11 year old going with my school friends and their father, Captain Cuthbert Scott RN who was in those days SORF, Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, from Sheerness to Burnham, the opposite side of the Thames Estuary to deliver several big carboys of rum to the minesweepers there for the regatta. We went in a large motorboat, maybe 40 footer? across the estuary which was very choppy, passing close to the wreck of the Liberty Ship full of ammunition, it was still very much intact back then, or at least the bridge and derricks which was all you could see. The motorboat was boarded by crossing the hulk of Cornwallis which 95% submerged but still clearly visible as a wooden walled ship.

[jbryce1437]

Just been reading up on the SS Richard Montcomery and she is still in too dangeraous a condition to try and remove the cargo.

Jim

[timlewin]

indeed; they had numerous opportunities to do this and failed to carry it out. I couldn't remember her name but back then she was very much in shallow water, I think on the edge of the deep channel with all of the bridge superstructure visible. I would not really want to live on the sea front in Sheerness, there is a lot in the adage "What can go wrong probably will"....

[Brian James]

HMS Marlborough pictured at Valletta in the 1850's.She was a first-rate three-decker 131 gun Screw Ship built at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1855. She was begun as a sailing ship-of-the-line,(with her sister ships HMS Duke of Wellington,HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Royal Sovereign), but was completed to a modified design and converted to steam on the building stocks.