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HMS Marlborough (1855) (4th)
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This the fourth ship to carry the name HMS Marlborough was a first
rate, 121-gun, screw, ship-of-the-line.
Built at Portsmouth Dockyard, launched 31-Jul-1855, 245ft long, 61ft wide and of 4,000 tons builders measurement or 6,300 tons displacement. Her establishment of guns was 1 x 110pdr, 16 x 8in, 6 x 70pdr, 10 x 40pdr and 88 x 32pdr. Became a training ship in 1878. Renamed HMS Vernon II Mar 1904. Sold for breaking up Oct-1924. Capsized and sank 28-Nov-1924 off Osea Island while under tow to the shipbreakers.
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30 November, 2012.
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