HMS Hindostan (1841)
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HMS ''Hindostan'' was an 80-gun two-deck
second rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...
ship of the line of the Royal Navy, 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 HMS Britannia (1820), ''Britannia'' at Dartmouth, Devon, Dartmouth, and remained part of that establishment until it was transferred ashore to the Britannia Royal Naval College, Royal Naval College there. She joined the boy artificers' training establishment at Portsmouth 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, HMS ''Impregnable'' were used in 1924 in the renovation of the Liberty department store in London.


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* *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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