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Brian James
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A group of officers pictured aboard Unarmoured, Iron-Hulled, Screw Frigate HMS Inconstant pictured in 1881..Built at Pembroke Dockyard and completed in 1869, when commissioned in that year she was the fastest warship in the world and was assigned to the Channel Squadron. Two years later the ship was transferred to the Detached Squadron for a brief time before she was paid off into reserve in 1872. Inconstant was recommissioned in 1880 for service with the Flying Squadron that circumnavigated the world in 1880–82. On the return voyage, the ship was diverted to Egypt during the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882 and played a minor role supporting operations ashore. She was reduced to reserve again after her return and was served as an Accommodation Ship in 1897. Inconstant was hulked in 1904 and became a Training Ship in 1906. She continued in that role, under a variety of names, until she was sold for scrap in 1955 and subsequently broken up, the second-to-last surviving Pembroke-built warship in existence.
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Jason Class, 26 gun sixth rate wooden Screw Frigate HMS Galatea pictured at Farm Cove, Sydney in 1873. Her armament consisted of:
Middle deck: 24 × 10 inch (85 cwt) MLSB shell guns (broadside)
Upper deck: 2 x 68 pdr (65 cwt) MLSB (pivot-mounted)
Later replaced by slide-mounted 110 pdr Armstrong BLs
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