HMS Royal William (1833)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Royal William
Ordered	30 December 1823
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	October 1825
Launched	2 April 1833
Fate	Burnt, 1899
General characteristics
Class and type	Broadened Caledonia-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	2694 bm
Length	205 ft 5.5 in (62.624 m) (gundeck)
Beam	54 ft 6 in (16.61 m)
Depth of hold	23 ft 2 in (7.06 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	120 guns:; Gundeck: 30 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68-pdr carronades; Middle gundeck: 34 × 32 pdrs; Upper gundeck: 34 × 32 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 2 × 18 pdrs, 14 × 32 pdr carronades; Forecastle: 2 × 18 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades;

Figurehead of the Royal William at HMNB Devonport

HMS Royal William was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 April 1833 at Pembroke Dock.^[1]

Royal William was fitted with screw propulsion in 1860.^[1] She later was lent to the Liverpool Roman Catholic Reformatory Society, who renamed her Clarence.^[2] Clarence was destroyed by arson on 26 July 1899 on the River Mersey near New Ferry on the Wirral Peninsula in England.^[2]^[3]

The figurehead of Royal William (in its original state) was for many years placed beside the historic 1775 Mutton Cove "covered slip number 1" in Plymouth harbour. In the 1990s it was replaced by a fiberglass copy, the wooden original is now preserved in The Box, Plymouth.

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p190.
^ ^a ^b "A Reformatory Ship Destroyed By Fire". The Times (35892): Col A, p. 6. 27 July 1899.
^ Anonymous, Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors, and Others: Reformatories and Industrial Schools; Public Record; Public Records (Ireland), Volume XLIII, 1900, p. 46.

References[]

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif (2004) The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889. Chatham Publishing, London. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.

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[Lavery,_SoLv1_p190-1] Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p190.

[times27July1899-2] "A Reformatory Ship Destroyed By Fire". The Times (35892): Col A, p. 6. 27 July 1899.

[3] Anonymous, Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors, and Others: Reformatories and Industrial Schools; Public Record; Public Records (Ireland), Volume XLIII, 1900, p. 46.

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v t Caledonia-class ships of the line
Caledonia Britannia Prince Regent Royal George Neptune Royal William Waterloo St George Trafalgar
Preceded by: Followed by: Nelson class
List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy

v t Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1899
Shipwrecks	4 Mar: HMS Resistance 30 Mar: Stella 24 Apr: Loch Sloy May (unknown date): City of Paris 4 Jun: Lindus, R. G. Stewart 12 Jul: City of York 21 Jul: Nunobiki Maru 26 Jul: Clarence 1 Aug: Benjamin C. Cromwell, James A. Garfield 8 Oct: Caleb Curtis 2 Nov: USS Charleston 2 Dec: Montevideo 3 Dec: Ismore 18 Dec: 115 Unknown date: Zaragoza
Other incidents	January (unknown date): Nubia 13 Feb: Germanic 28 Jul: HMS Royal Sovereign July (unknown date): Oakland 12 Nov: Gromoboi Unknown date: Frank A. Palmer
1898 1900

History

United Kingdom
Name	HMS Royal William
Ordered	30 December 1823
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	October 1825
Launched	2 April 1833
Fate	Burnt, 1899
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type	Broadened Caledonia-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	2694 bm
Length	205 ft 5.5 in (62.624 m) (gundeck)
Beam	54 ft 6 in (16.61 m)
Depth of hold	23 ft 2 in (7.06 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	120 guns: Gundeck: 30 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68-pdr carronades Middle gundeck: 34 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 34 × 32 pdrs Quarterdeck: 2 × 18 pdrs, 14 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 18 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades