Английская Википедия:HMS Royal William (1833)

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Painting of the first Mersey boat race between cadets of Шаблон:HMS (on the right) and London's Шаблон:HMS on 11 June 1891. Clarence (ex-Royal William) is in the centre, furthest away.
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Replica figurehead of the Royal William at HMNB Devonport

HMS Royal William was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 April 1833 at Pembroke Dock having taken eight years to build.[1] She was one of the largest ships ever built by the Royal Navy at that time, with a crew of 900 men. However, she was built during the long period of peace in Great Britain and never saw any meaningful service.

Service

Royal William was fitted with screw propulsion in 1860 but never put into seagoing state for operation.[1] In 1885 she was lent to the Liverpool Roman Catholic Reformatory Society, who renamed her Шаблон:HMS[2] to replace their first reformatory school ship of that name destroyed by arson in 1884. As the new Clarence, she was ultimately also destroyed by arson, on 26 July 1899 on the River Mersey near New Ferry on the Wirral Peninsula in England.[2][3]

Commanders of Note

Trivia

The figurehead of Royal William (in its original state) was for many years placed beside the historic 1775 Mutton Cove "covered slip number 1" in Plymouth harbour. In the 1990s it was replaced by a fibreglass copy, the wooden original is now preserved in The Box, Plymouth.

The "Royal William" public house in Liverpool was named after the ship. The pub was demolished in 1998.

Notes

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References

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  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. Шаблон:ISBN.
  • Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif (2004) The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889. Chatham Publishing, London. Шаблон:ISBN.

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок Lavery, SoLv1 p190 не указан текст
  2. 2,0 2,1 "A Reformatory Ship Destroyed By Fire". The Times (35892): Col A, p. 6. 27 July 1899.
  3. Anonymous, Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors, and Others: Reformatories and Industrial Schools; Public Record; Public Records (Ireland), Volume XLIII, 1900, p. 46.