HMS Clarence (1827)
HMS Clarence was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 July 1827 at Pembroke Dockyard.[1]
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Name: | HMS Clarence |
Ordered: | 27 May 1819 |
Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down: | August 1824 |
Launched: | 25 July 1827 |
Fate: | Burnt, 17 January 1884 at Liverpool |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type: | Canopus-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 2288 bm |
Length: | 193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck) |
Beam: | 52 ft 4.5 in (15.964 m) |
Depth of hold: | 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
Armament: |
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She was lent to the Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association for use as a boys reformatory ship and was destroyed by a fire set by 6 of the boys whilst at her mooring in the Mersey in 1884.[2]
Notes
- Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 190.
- Gossett (1986), p.122.
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