HMS Windsor Castle (1858)

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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Windsor Castle and HMS Cambridge.

HMS Windsor Castle was a triple-decker, 116 gun first-rate Royal Navy ship of the line. She was renamed HMS Cambridge in 1866 or 1869, when she replaced a ship of the same name as gunnery ship off Plymouth.

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[edit] Life

[edit] Early life

Laid down at Pembroke Dockyard as HMS Victoria, she was converted from sail to steam screw whilst on the stocks, renamed Windsor Castle on 6 January 1855 and launched 26 August 1858. 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".

[edit] Gunnery school

She was renamed HMS Cambridge in 1866 or 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.

[edit] Fate

She was towed on October 30th 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.

[edit] 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

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