Models of ships in the Naval Gallery at the South Kensington Museum, 1865. 'The Caledonia, which has, since 1856, been named the taken the place of the old Dreadnought as the hospital-ship at was designed by Sir William Rule, built at Devonport dockyard, and launched in is what was reckoned a first-rate man-of-war at the time when our present captains first went to sea as midshipmen. The now to be removed from the Thames, as the sick seamen will be accommodated in Greenwich Hospital. The Queen, built at Portsmouth between 1833 and 18
Models of ships in the Naval Gallery at the South Kensington Museum, 1865. 'The Caledonia, which has, since 1856, been named the taken the place of the old Dreadnought as the hospital-ship at was designed by Sir William Rule, built at Devonport dockyard, and launched in is what was reckoned a first-rate man-of-war at the time when our present captains first went to sea as midshipmen. The now to be removed from the Thames, as the sick seamen will be accommodated in Greenwich Hospital. The Queen, built at Portsmouth between 1833 and 1839, from the designs of Sir William [was] the very last sailing line-of-battle ship that was built, or that will ever be, for the British armament was 110 was converted to a screw two-decker in 1859 at Sheerness. The Agamemnon was the first man-of-war built for the screw-propeller, being laid down at Woolwich in November, 1849, and launched in May, 1852. She was designed by Mr. J. engines are of 600-horse will, of course, be remembered that in 1857 and 1858 the Agamemnon was employed in laying down the Atlantic telegraph cable'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.
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