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| Name | Royal George (1817) | Explanation | |
| Type | Yacht | ||
| Launched | 17 July 1817 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 330 tons | ||
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| Fate | 1905 | ||
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| Note | 1843 h.s. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 10 September 1830 - 30 June 1843 | Commanded by Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Portsmouth | ||
| (October 1843) | Out of commission at Portsmouth | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| We 29 December 1841 | PORTSMOUTH, Tuesday. The Thalia, 42, Captain C. Hope, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the eastward. She has recently come from Leith, where she has been very successful in procuring volunteers to join her. The Powerful, 84, Captain M. Seymour, will come into the harbour this day, and will be paid off as soon as she is unrigged. She was to have come in yesterday, but was prevented by the thick fog which was prevailing at the time the tide would admit of her entering the harbour. Vice-Admiral Sir J.A. Ommanney has struck his flag. The Numa transport, with the detachments of the Royal Artillery and 59th Regiment on board, bound to the West Indies, is still at Spithead, but will sail to-day if the wind is in any way favourable. The detachment of the Royal Artillery has already been upwards of a month on board of her. The Queen, 110, Captain Rich, bent her sails yesterday, and is now all ataunt. She will proceed on Wednesday or Thursday to Spithead. The whole of the ships now fitting out here for foreign service, consisting of the Warspite, 50, Vindictive, 50, Rapid, 10, and Queen, 110, will go out of harbour this week. Ships at Spithead:— Powerful, 84, Thalia, 42, Hazard, 18, Snake, 16, and Numa transport. Ships in harbour.— St. Vincent, Victory, Queen, Warspite, Vindictive, Rapid, Royal George yacht, Excellent and Adventure naval transport. | ||
| Fr 31 December 1841 | Her Majesty's ship Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Hay, is now nearly ready to undertake the distinguished duty which has been assigned to her. Her decorations are not of that nature which appertain to a yacht, but only extend to placing her at once in that high state of order, comfort, and cleanliness which characterizes a crack English man-of-war, She is, without exception, the finest frigate in the service: is high between decks, has great breadth of beam, and her length is in proportion to her breadth. She has not a single carronade on board, but mounts 52 guns of large calibre, 12 of which are long sixty-eights, and. the remaining 40 long thirty-two-pounders. Of the sixty-eights, 6 are on the mam deck, and 6 on the upper. Those on the main deck are placed amidships, 3 on each side, but those on the upper deck are distributed one on each side of the forecastle, one on each of the gangways, and one on each side the quarter deck, quite aft. It is rumoured that His Majesty the King of Prussia intends to land at Portsmouth. Though this is not at all improbable, yet neither the place where His Majesty will embark, nor that where he will land, is at present known, nor what vessels will be despatched with the Warspite to convey him, although there is no question that one or more steamers will accompany her. When Her Majesty the Queen Dowager went abroad, the Castor frigate, commanded then by the present Captain of the Warspite, and the Royal George yacht, attended by two steamers, were the vessels employed to convey Her Majesty. who, upon that occasion, landed at Helvoetsluys. | ||
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