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HMS Formidable (1825)

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Name
  
HMS Formidable

Laid down
  
October 1819

Tons burthen
  
2289 bm

Launched
  
19 May 1825

Ordered
  
8 May 1815

Fate
  
Sold, 1906

Construction started
  
October 1819

Builder
  
Chatham Dockyard

Class and type
  
Canopus-class ship of the line

HMS Formidable was an 84-gun second rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1825 at Chatham Dockyard.

In 1869 Formidable became a training ship, at the National Nautical School in Portishead, and she was sold out of the navy in 1906.

Archives

Records of the National Nautical School are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 38087) (online catalogue).

References

HMS Formidable (1825) Wikipedia