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| Name | Caledonia (launched as Impregnable, 1810) | Explanation | |
| Type | Second rate | ||
| Launched | 1 August 1810 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 2406 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 98 | ||
| Fate | 1906 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1862 training ship. 1888 = Kent. 1891 = Caledonia | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 16 May 1814 - 29 June 1814 | Commanded by Captain Charles Adam | ||
| 30 April 1839 - 27 October 1840 | Commanded by Captain Henry Eden, flagship of Graham Moore, Plymouth | ||
| 27 October 1840 - March 1843 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Forrest, Mediterranean | ||
| March 1843 - 8 June 1843 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Robert Smart, flagship of Rear-Admiral Francis Mason, second in command, Mediterranean | ||
| 1 January 1849 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Maitland, flagship of Admiral William Hall Gage, Devonport | ||
| 1 January 1852 | Commanded by Captain Arthur Lowe, flagship of Admiral John Acworth Ommanney, Devonport | ||
| 6 May 1854 - 25 April 1857 | Commanded by Captain Charles Wise, flagship of Admiral William Parker, Devonport | ||
| 4 May 1857 - 3 May 1860 | Commanded by Captain William Houston Stewart, flagship of Vice-Admiral Barrington Reynolds, Plymouth | ||
| 31 May 1860 - 31 March 1861 | Commanded by Captain Lord Frederick Herbert Kerr, flagship of Vice-Admiral Houston Stewart, Devonport | ||
| 2 April 1861 - 31 December 1861 | Commanded by Captain Charles Vesey, Devonport, flag-ship of the Port Admiral | ||
| 1 January 1862 - 11 May 1863 | Commanded by Commander Francisco Sangro Robert Dawson Tremlett, Devonport, training ship | ||
| 12 May 1863 - 20 June 1868 | Commanded by Captain Francisco Sangro Robert Dawson Tremlett, Devonport, training ship | ||
| 28 May 1868 - 31 December 1870 | Commanded by Captain William Gore-Jones, Devonport, training ship | ||
| 1 January 1872 - 31 December 1874 | Commanded by Captain John Crawford Wilson, Devonport, training ship for boys | ||
| 1 January 1878 - 28 January 1880 | Commanded by Captain Henry Dennis Hickley, Devonport, training ship for boys | ||
| 26 January 1880 - 25 January 1883 | Commanded by Captain Richard Bradshaw, Devonport, training ship for boys | ||
| 26 January 1883 - 31 March 1886 | Commanded by Captain Joseph Edward Maitland Wilson, training ship for boys | ||
| 9 November 1888 | Renamed Kent | ||
| 22 September 1891 | Renamed Caledonia | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| We 5 February 1851 | Plymouth, Tuesday morning. A serious accident occurred yesterday afternoon on board Her Majesty's frigate Calliope, 26, Captain Sir J. Everard Home. Bart., C.B., in Hamoase. She was about to be towed into the Sound, had slipped from her moorings, and was attached to a buoy near the flagship Impregnable, lying under the Obelisk. One end of a towing warp was fastened to an iron boiler on board the steam tug Avon, and several turns of the other end were passed round the capstan on the upper deck of the Calliope; but the pauls of the capstan were not adjusted. When the Avon went ahead, the sudden jerk on the capstan caused it to revolve with frightful velocity, and, as the capstan bars were not secured by swifters and pins, they flew about destructively in all directions among the officers and crew. Captain Home received several bruises about the head and body; an assistant surgeon and a quartermaster were severely injured, and a marine had his ear cut off. Signals were instantly made to the different ships in commission, from which the surgeons promptly attended. Some 18 in all were hurt, and it was found necessary to send Sir Everard Home and five others to the Royal Naval Hospital. The frigate was in consequence of the accident replaced at her moorings. | ||
| Fr 7 October 1859 | The paddle-wheel steamvessel Locust, 3, Lieut. Field, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday, with 45 supernumeraries for the guardship Impregnable and the Impérieuse. | ||
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