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HMS Melpomene (1857)  (3rd)
Wooden Screw Frigate.

    
This the third ship to carry the name HMS Melpomene was a wooden screw frigate.

Built at Pembroke Dock, launched 08-Aug-1857, 237ft long, 52ft wide and of 2,861 tons builders measurement. Spent eight years on the stocks and was originally intended to be a fourth rate, ship, of 2,147 tons builders measurement.

Sold 23-Jan-1875

 

 

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- 6th HMS Melpomene
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This page last edited - 28 August, 2012.

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