HMS Windsor Castle (1858)
- HMS Windsor Castle (1858)
HMS "Windsor Castle" was a triple-decker, 116 gun first-rate Royal Navy ship of the line. She was renamed HMS "Cambridge" in 1866 or 1869, when she replaced a ship of the same name as gunnery ship off Plymouth.
Life
Early life
Laid down at Pembroke Dockyard as HMS "Victoria", she was converted from sail to steam screw whilst on the stocks, renamed "Windsor Castle" on 6 January 1855 and launched 26 August 1858. 204 feet long, and of 4971 tons displacement, she had a crew of 930, but almost immediately entered the first-class steam reserve - The Times reported on 13 September 1860 reported her as among the "ships and gunboats in the first-class steam reserve which could be got ready for the pennant at a short notice".
Gunnery school
She was renamed HMS "Cambridge" in 1866 or 1869, when she replaced a ship of the same name as gunnery ship off Plymouth. She was later joined by HMS "Calcutta" as her tender, with a wooden bridge between the bow of HMS "Cambridge" and the stern of the "Calcutta". Other of her tenders included HMS "Gorgon", "Plucky" and "Sabrina" (around 1877) and HMS "Bonetta", "Bulldog", "Cuckoo", "Hecate", "Plucky", "Sabrina" and "Snap" (around 1890). In 1890, some of her officers were listed as bound for "Foudroyant" and "Perseus".
Fate
She was towed on October 30th 1907 to No. 5 Basin of the Royal Dockyard to enable the gunnery school to move ashore into the Naval Barracks, paid off on November 4th that year and sold to Cox on 24 June 1908 for breaking up at Falmouth.
Captains
*January 1869 - May 1871 : Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley
*Around 12 August 1877 : Thomas Le Hunte Ward
*15 August 1883 - 25 August 1886 : George Stanley Bosanquet
External links
*http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1196
*http://www.plymouthdata.info/Royal%20Naval%20Gunnery%20School.htm
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