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| Name | Pembroke (1812) | Explanation | |
| Type | Third rate | Type | Blockship |
| Launched (Sail) | 23 June 1812 | Converted to screw | 3 February 1855 |
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 176 feet |
| Propulsion | Sail | Men | 600 |
| Builders measure | 1758 tons | Builders measure (as screw) | 1758 tons |
| Displacement | Displacement (as screw) | 2842 tons | |
| Guns | 74 | Guns (as screw) | 60 |
| Fate | 1905 | Last in commission | 1869 |
| Class | Armada | Class (as screw) | Cornwallis |
| Ships book | |||
| Snippets concerning career prior to conversion | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 27 June 1812 | Launched as 3rd rate sailing ship at Wigram, Wells and Green, Blackwall | ||
| 25 March 1836 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Fellowes | ||
| 23 January 1837 - 14 July 1840 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Fairfax Moresby, Mediterranean | ||
| January 1843 | Out of commission at Portsmouth | ||
| Career as unarmoured wooden screw vessel | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 3 February 1855 | Undocked as screw at Portsmouth Dockyard | ||
| 5 February 1855 - 5 August 1861 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain George Henry Seymour, the Baltic during the Russian War, then North America and West Indies | ||
| 3 December 1856 - 28 February 1858 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain John Fraser, Coast Guard, Leith (replaced by Edinburgh) | ||
| 1 March 1858 - January 1861 | Commanded by Captain Edward Philips Charlewood, Coast Guard, Harwich, tender: Dolphin | ||
| 1 January 1861 - 31 March 1861 | Commanded by Captain George Edwin Patey, Coast Guard, Harwich | ||
| 5 April 1861 - 1 May 1863 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Fisher, Coast Guard, Harwich (frm 6 february 1863, flag of Commodore Swynfen Carnegie) | ||
| 28 April 1863 - 27 April 1866 | Commanded by Captain John Ormsby Johnson, Coast Guard, Harwick | ||
| 2 May 1866 - 10 May 1869 | Commanded by Captain Hon. John Welbore Sunderland Spencer, Coast Guard, Harwich | ||
| 11 May 1869 - 11 June 1869 | Commanded by Captain William John Samuel Pullen, Coast Guard, Harwich (replaced by Penelope) | ||
| 12 June 1869 - 30 June 1870 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Miller, flagship of Richard Laird Warren, Sheerness | ||
| 1 July 1870 - 31 December 1871 | Commanded by Captain John Crawford Wilson, flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot, Sheerness | ||
| 20 December 1870 - 31 December 1874 | Commanded by Captain Charles Murray-Aynsley, Reserve ship, Chatam | ||
| 1 January 1872 - 31 March 1873 | Commanded by Captain George Willes Watson, flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot, Sheerness | ||
| 1873 | Barrack ship at Chatham | ||
| 1 January 1875 - 2 January 1878 | Commanded by Captain John Clark Soady, Captain Superintendent of the Medway steam reserve | ||
| 1 January 1878 - October 1878 | Commanded by Captain Frederick William Richards, flagship of Rear-Admiral Charles Fellowes, Admiral Superintendant of the Steam Reserve, Chatham | ||
| (21 November 1878) - 2 January 1882 | Commanded by Captain Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, harbour service (in command of the Medway steam reserve) | ||
| (1879) | Flag Ship of the Admiral Superintendent, Chatham; includes officers borne for duties in Chatham Dockyard, for the Reserve, Melville Hospital, Sheerness Yard, Torpedo Boats and for Tenders. | ||
| 17 December 1881 - 31 March 1885 | Commanded by Captain Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, harbour service (in command of the Medway steam reserve) | ||
| 28 March 1885 - 31 December 1886 | Commanded by Captain Alexander BullerFlag Ship of the George Willes Watson , Admiral Superintendent, Chatham | ||
| (April 1886) | Chatham | ||
| (1890) | Guard ship of Reserve; includes officers borne for supervisory duties for ships building in private yards on the Clyde, Tyne and Mersey, and ashore at Chatham Dockyard etc. | ||
| 1890 | Renamed Forte, receiving ship | ||
| 1905 | Sold | ||
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