HMS ''Hindostan'' was an 80-gun two-deck
second rate ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
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
''Britannia'' at
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, and remained part of that establishment until it was transferred ashore to the
Royal Naval College
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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'' were used in 1924 in the renovation of the Liberty department store in London.
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References
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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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Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Plymouth, Devon
1841 ships
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