HMS ''Hindostan'' was an 80-gun two-deck

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, launched on 2 August 1841. Her design was based on an enlarged version of the lines of . In 1865 she became an auxiliary to the training ship ''Britannia'' at Dartmouth, and remained part of that establishment until it was transferred ashore to the Royal Naval College there. She joined the boy artificers' training establishment at

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that year and was renamed ''Fisgard III''. She was renamed ''Hindostan'' in 1920, and sold to J. B. Garnham & Sons in 1921. After being broken up, her timbers and those of HMS ''Impregnable'' were used in 1924 in the renovation of the Liberty department store in London.

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References

* *Lavery, Brian (2003). ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650-1850.'' London: Conway Maritime Press. . *

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