3-017-268 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Models of ships in the Naval Gallery at the South Kensington Museum, 1865. 'The Caledonia, which has, since 1856, been named the Dreadnought...has taken the place of the old Dreadnought as the hospital-ship at Greenwich...She was designed by Sir William Rule, built at Devonport dockyard, and launched in 1808...This is what was reckoned a first-rate man-of-war at the time when our present captains first went to sea as midshipmen. The Caledonia...is now to be removed from the Thames, as the sick seamen will be accommodated in Greenwich Hospital. The Queen, built at Portsmouth between 1833 and 1839, from the designs of Sir William Symonds...[was] the very last sailing line-of-battle ship that was built, or that will ever be, for the British Navy...Her armament was 110 guns...She was converted to a screw two-decker in 1859 at Sheerness. The Agamemnon was the first man-of-war built for the screw-propeller, being laid down at Woolwich in November, 1849, and launched in May, 1852. She was designed by Mr. J. Edye...Her engines are of 600-horse power...It will, of course, be remembered that in 1857 and 1858 the Agamemnon was employed in laying down the Atlantic telegraph cable'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.