HMS ''Vernon'' was a 50-gun

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launched in 1832. She became tender to the Navy's gunnery school , and then the

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in 1876. She was renamed HMS ''Actaeon'' in 1886 and sold in 1923. Figurehead and No 1 Gunwharf Quay - geograph

Seven warships proceding under sail by Cammillieri

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vernon 1832 ships Training ships of the Royal Navy