HMS Windsor Castle (1858)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Windsor Castle |
| Ordered: |
3 October 1833 Reordered on 29 June 1848 to modified sail design Reordered on 28 February 1857 to modified steam design |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Laid down: | May 1844 |
| Launched: | 26 August 1858 |
| Renamed: |
Built as HMS Victoria Renamed HMS Windsor Castle on 6 January 1855 Renamed HMS Cambridge in 1869 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up on 24 June 1908 |
| General characteristics As designed | |
| Class and type: | 110-gun first-rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 3,083 tons |
| Length: | 204 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 60 ft (18 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Speed: | 11kts (under steam) |
| Complement: | 950 |
| Armament: |
102 guns:
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| General characteristics As completed | |
| Class and type: | 102-gun first-rate ship of the line |
| Displacement: | 4,971 tons |
| Tons burthen: | 3,099 tons |
| Length: | 204 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 60 ft (18 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Sail 2-cyl. (64½in diam., 40in stroke) horizontal single expansion, trunk Single screw 500 nhp 2,052 ihp |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Speed: | 11kts (under steam) |
| Complement: | 930 |
| Armament: |
102 guns:
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| General characteristics After 1862 | |
| Class and type: | 97-gun ship of the line |
| Armament: |
97 guns:
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HMS Windsor Castle was a triple-decker, 102-gun first-rate Royal Navy ship of the line. She was renamed HMS Cambridge in 1869, when she replaced a ship of the same name as gunnery ship off Plymouth.
Life
Early life
She was laid down at Pembroke Dockyard as HMS Victoria in 1844, to the design of HMS Queen. She was intended to carry 110 guns, but work was suspended. She was reordered on 29 June 1848 to a modified design, and reordered again on 28 February 1857 when she was ordered to be converted from sail to steam propulsion whilst on the stocks and to be fitted with 120 guns. She was renamed Windsor Castle on 6 January 1855 and launched on 26 August 1858, having since been reduced to carry 116 guns, and then 102 guns. She cost a total of £117,030, £84,555 spent on her hull as a sailing vessel, her conversion had cost another £14,878. 204 feet long, and of 4971 tons displacement, she had a crew of 930, but almost immediately entered the first-class steam reserve - The Times reported on 13 September 1860 reported her as among the "ships and gunboats in the first-class steam reserve which could be got ready for the pennant at a short notice". By 1862 she had been reduced to 97 guns.
Gunnery school
She was renamed HMS Cambridge in 1869, when she replaced a ship of the same name as gunnery ship off Plymouth. She was later joined by HMS Calcutta as her tender, with a wooden bridge between the bow of HMS Cambridge and the stern of the Calcutta. Other of her tenders included HMS Gorgon, Plucky and Sabrina (around 1877) and HMS Bonetta, Bulldog, Cuckoo, Hecate, Plucky, Sabrina and Snap (around 1890). In 1890, some of her officers were listed as bound for Foudroyant and Perseus.
Fate
She was towed on 30 October 1907 to No. 5 Basin of the Royal Dockyard to enable the gunnery school to move ashore into the Naval Barracks, paid off on November 4th that year and sold to Cox on 24 June 1908 for breaking up at Falmouth.
Captains
- January 1869 - May 1871 : Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley
- Around 12 August 1877 : Thomas Le Hunte Ward
- 15 August 1883 - 25 August 1886 : George Stanley Bosanquet
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889, pub Chatham, 2004, ISBN 1-86176-032-9
External links
- http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1196
- http://www.plymouthdata.info/Royal%20Naval%20Gunnery%20School.htm
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