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HMS Forte (1858) (3rd)
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This the third ship to carry the name HMS Forte was a 51-gun,
wooden screw frigate. The name ship of a class of five ships. Built at Deptford Dockyard, launched 29-May-1858, 212ft long, 50ft wide, of 2,364 tons builders measurement and displacing 3,456 tons. Used as a receiving ship from 1880, then a coal hulk 1894. Burned in an accident at Sheerness 23-Nov-1905.
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