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''Dom Fernando II e Glória'' is a wooden-hulled, 50-gun frigate of the
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. She was launched in 1843 and made her maiden voyage in 1845. Built at the
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of
Daman Daman may refer to: place Places *Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, a union territory in India **Daman and Diu, former union territory of India, now part of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu **Daman district, India ***Daman, India ...
in
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, it was Portugal's last sailing warship to be built and also the last ship that undertook the
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(''India Run''), a regular military line that connected Portugal to its colonies in India since the beginning of the 16th century. The ship remained in active service until 1878, when she made her last sea voyage, having travelled more than one hundred thousand miles, the equivalent of five
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s of the world. After long service it was almost destroyed by a fire in 1963 with the burned wooden-
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remaining beached at the mud-flats of the river
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for the next 29 years. Finally in 1990 the Portuguese Navy decided to restore her to her appearance in the 1850s. During the World Exhibition of 1998 the ship remained in Lisbon as a
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on the dependency of the
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, being classified as an Auxiliary Navy Unit (''UAM 203''). Since 2008, the ship lies on the southern margin of the Tagus river in
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,
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.


Construction

In 1821, the
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of the Royal Navy of Goa, Cândido José Mourão Garcez Palha, proposed to the Portuguese government the construction of a new frigate in the Portuguese colony of Daman, who possessed to the east a large forest of
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in
Nagar-Aveli Nagar Haveli is one of the two talukas of Dadra and Nagar Haveli District, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India. It is surrounded by the Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Silvassa, the administrative headquarters of Dadra ...
, considered to be an excellent wood for ship building.Paine, p. 50 The authorization for the construction was given in 1824, by the Portuguese king
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. The civil war period and the political and economical problems in Portugal, delayed the construction for several times throughout the years. She was built in the Shipyards of the Royal Navy Arsenal under the supervision of the naval builder engineer Gil José da Conceição, being involved in its construction both Portuguese and Indian workers. She was finally launched in 1843, and towed to
Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to th ...
for fitting out as a full-rigged ship. She was named as a tribute to the king consort of Portugal Ferdinand II, husband of the Portuguese Queen
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, and to Our Lady of Glory, a figure of special devotion among the Catholic population of Goa. The frigate was noted for her spacious accommodations, a critical factor on voyages that could take three months or even more without an intermediate port of call.


Service

The maiden voyage took place between 2 February and 4 July 1845 under the command of Captain Torcato José Marques, with a crew of 145 men, connecting Goa to Lisbon. Since then it was used on several types of missions over the years: *Transporting military units, settlers, colonial administrators throughout the Empire, and even
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s to the Portuguese colonies in Africa and India. *Transporting in 1852 to the Portuguese island of
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, the Empress consort of
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, and her daughter
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who was sick with
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and was looking for a good climate to recover from her disease, dying however five months after the arrival. *Transporting to Angola in 1854 the Portuguese explorer
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and the thirteen members of is expedition after their completion of the crossing of Africa, from the coast of Angola to the coast of
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. *Participation in May 1855 as
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of a Portuguese naval force in
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,
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, against a local rebellion. *Participation in 1860 in the colonization of Huíla, Angola, transporting sheep and horses from
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to Angola. In 1865, she replaced the sailing ship ''Vasco da Gama'' as the Artillery School of the Portuguese Navy, conducting training missions up until 1878, when it completed her last training mission on sea in a voyage to the
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islands. In this last voyage she rescued the crew of the American
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''Lawrence Boston'', which had caught fire off the Azores
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. After this, she remained permanently moored in Lisbon as the Naval Artillery School with significant modifications being made on her in 1889, with the replacement of her elegant masts, and the construction of two
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s on both her sides for the placement of modern cannons, to better serve her role of artillery instruction unit. In 1938 served as the flagship of the naval forces of
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, based in the river Tagus.


Fire and damage

In 1940, after being considered unfit for navy service, it became the he