HMS Vigo (launched as Agincourt, 1817)
HMS Vigo (launched as Agincourt, 1817)


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NameVigo (launched as Agincourt, 1817)Explanation
TypeThird rate   
Launched19 March 1817
HullWooden
PropulsionSail
Builders measure1747 tons
Displacement 
Guns74
Fate1884
ClassArmada
Ships book
Note1848 t.s.
1866 hospital ship.
1870 r.s.
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
(January 1840)Out of commission at Plymouth
1 February 1842
- May 1845
Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Henry William Bruce, flagship of Rear-Admiral Thomas John Cochrane (his brother-in-law), East Indies
6 May 1845
- 4 September 1847
Commanded by Captain William James Hope Johnstone, flagship of Rear-Admiral Thomas John Cochrane, East Indies
28 January 1848
- 31 March 1849
Commanded by Captain William Bowen Mends, depot ship of Ordinary, Devonport
24 March 1849Commanded by Captain William James Hope Johnstone, depot ship of Ordinary, Devonport
1865Renamed Vigo


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