Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Indus V (launched as Ganges)

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Name	Indus V (launched as Ganges)	Explanation
Type	2nd rate
Launched	10 November 1821
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Sail
Builders measure	2248 tons
Displacement	3594 tons
Guns	84
Fate	1929
Class
Ships book
Note	1865 t.s. 1906 = Tenedos III. 1910 = Indus V. 1922 = Impregnable III
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
1822 - October 1822	Commanded by Captain Francis Augustus Collier, bringing this newly built ship home from Bombay
17 October 1838 - 18 April 1842	Commanded by Captain Barrington Reynolds, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840)
(January 1843)	Out of commission at Sheerness
(10 January 1848)	Commanded by Captain George Thomas Gordon
1 March 1848	Commanded by Captain Henry Smith (Sheerness), Mediterranean
19 October 1849	Commanded by Commander Oliver John Jones, Mediterranean
25 June 1857	Commanded by Captain John Fulford, flagship of Rear-Admiral Robert Lambert Baynes, Pacific
26 July 1866 - 20 April 1867	Commanded by Commander Frederick William Wilson, training ship for boys, Falmouth (after Commander Frederick Hildebrand Stevens and his First Lieutenant were superseded for given punishments not laid down in the Training regulations)
20 April 1867	Commanded by Commander Joseph Edward Maitland Wilson, training ship for boys, Falmouth
8 August 1891 - 9 March 1894	Commanded by Commander John Rolleston Prickett, boys training ship
1906	Renamed Tenedos III
1910	Renamed Indus V
1922	Renamed Impregnable III