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HMS Clarence (1827)

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Name
  
HMS Clarence

Laid down
  
August 1824

Construction started
  
August 1824

Builder
  
Pembroke Dockyard

Ordered
  
27 May 1819

Tons burthen
  
2288 bm

Launched
  
25 July 1827

Fate
  
Burnt, 17 January 1884 at Liverpool

Class and type
  
Canopus-class ship of the line

HMS Clarence was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 July 1827 at Pembroke Dockyard.

She was lent to the Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association for use as a boys reformatory ship and was destroyed by a fire set by 6 of the boys whilst at her mooring in the Mersey in 1884.

References

HMS Clarence (1827) Wikipedia