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HMS ''Worcester'' was a 52-gun 1,500 ton
HMS ''Worcester'' was a 52-gun 1,500 ton fourth rate
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frigate
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of the Royal Navy
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, belonging to the six-ship Southampton class. She was laid down in Deptford
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in 1820 but only launched in 1843. She was lent as a training ship in 1862 to form the Thames Marine Officer Training School (later known as the Thames Nautical Training College
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The Thames Nautical Training College, as it is now called, was, for over a hundred years, situated aboard ships named HMS ''Worcester''.
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), with nearly £1,000 spent on her conversion. In that role she was moored on the Thames at Blackwall Reach
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, Erith
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by 1863, Southend
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in 1869 and finally at Greenhithe
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in 1871. She was broken up in 1885 and succeeded by the renamed HMS ''Frederick William''.
Sources
*http://www.hms-worcester.org.uk/stuff/History%20from%20old%20site.pdf *http://prints.rmg.co.uk/art/516044/hms-worcester-1843 *http://mostlyboxesantiques.com/HMS-Worcester-astray-from-the-timbers-of-HMS-WorcesterExternal links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Worcester, HMS 1843 ships Ships built in Deptford Frigates of the Royal Navy Training ships of the United Kingdom