Talk:Hougoumont (ship)

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A three masted ship called the Hougoumont, similar in appearance to a Blackwall Frigate, was used as a cement store, workman's accommodation and also as a smallpox isolation ship during the building of the Forth Bridge (1883 - 1890). Could this be the same ship?

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