Name HMS Victor Emmanuel Laid down 16 May 1853 Construction started 16 May 1853 Builder Pembroke Dockyard | Ordered 4 April 1851 Commissioned 9 September 1858 Launched 27 February 1855 | |
Renamed Launched as HMS Repulse
Renamed HMS Victor Emmanuel on 7 December 1855 Reclassified Hospital and receiving ship from 1873 | ||
HMS Victor Emmanuel was a screw-propelled 91-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, originally launched as HMS Repulse, but renamed shortly after being launched.
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Construction and commissioning
Victor Emmanuel was an Agamemnon-class ship of the line, a class originally designed as 80-gun sailing two-deckers. They were re-ordered as screw ships in 1849, and Victor Emmanuel was duly reclassified as a 91-gun ship on 26 March 1852. She was built and launched on 27 February 1855 under the name HMS Repulse, but was renamed Victor Emmanuel on 7 December 1855, in honour of Victor Emmanuel after he visited the ship. She cost a total of £158,086, with £87,597 spent on her hull, and a further £35,588 spent on her machinery.
Career
She served in the English Channel, the Mediterranean, and off the African coast during the Anglo-Ashanti wars. She was assigned to Hong Kong to replace HMS Princess Charlotte and used as a hospital and receiving ship there from 1873. She was sold in 1899.